The Wall

[ABC]

1 hour ago, Make Angels Great Again said:

Since my switch seems to be such an obsession, let me explain it.

I like to keep an open mind. After Bernie berned out I took an honest look at the Trump side since I despised Clinton so much, and saw a lot of it made sense. You see, i'm not too prideful to admit when i'm wrong, unlike many others around here *cough* @red321 *cough*. I actually watched this 2 hour long youtube video of Peter Schiff confronting occupy wall street protestors and explaining economic policy to them (deregulation, the waste of a lot of government departments etc). I thought he made a lot of sense.

 

 

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Schiff takes advantage of old people with money. He seems to make sound fiscal sense but when his ideas are held to the fire his philosophies fall apart because there is no nuance. The reason there is no nuance is because his hardline stance speaks to the no-nonsense elderly who gladly give him their money to "manage". I can't knock his hustle. He is a brilliant salesman.

[AngelsLongBall]

Interesting Op-Ed on immigration and paying for the wall:

https://www.yahoo.com/news/m/ee98ede9-0884-3b0f-b75a-7a91beec3fe2/op-ed%3A-how-trump-can-end.html

 

[Make Angels Great Again]

Lol @ this picture on the article.

 

[Ordos]

13 minutes ago, AngelsLongBall said:

Interesting Op-Ed on immigration and paying for the wall:

https://www.yahoo.com/news/m/ee98ede9-0884-3b0f-b75a-7a91beec3fe2/op-ed%3A-how-trump-can-end.html

 

An intriguing idea. We could call it the "Keep My Strawberries Affordable Act"

[AngelsLongBall]

38 minutes ago, Ordos said:

An intriguing idea. We could call it the "Keep My Strawberries Affordable Act"

"...If you like your current strawberries, you can keep them..."

[Lhalo]

Strawberries are all watered down nowadays.

[InsideThePark]

3 hours ago, Lawrence said:

Wrong wrong wrong.

Who do you think would foot the bill for those tariffs?

Hint: it wouldn't be Mexico.

[Make Angels Great Again]

I would think it depends on the product. Do you think Mexican imports will just raise their prices to account for the tax and people will just pay it? If there is competition from American products in the same market just raising the prices might not work.

[InsideThePark]

2 minutes ago, Make Angels Great Again said:

I would think it depends on the product. Do you think Mexican imports will just raise their prices to account for the tax and people will just pay it? If there is competition from American products in the same market just raising the prices might not work.

Yes.

[Ordos]

Yeah, pretty much

[Spirit]

Si'

 

 

[AngelsLongBall]

Por supuesto

[Make Angels Great Again]

24 minutes ago, InsideThePark said:

Yes.

Ok, and thoughts on the following sentence?

[Ordos]

Then I'd expect those companies to move to a different cheap labor market. Not likely they'll simply sit back and take less profit

[Tank]

1 hour ago, Lawrence said:

Strawberries are all watered down nowadays.

thanks, obama!

[Spirit]

1 hour ago, Lawrence said:

Strawberries are all watered down nowadays.

 

Stupid rain!

 

 

 

[Taylor]

1 hour ago, Tank said:

thanks, obama!

Racist.

[Adam]

5 hours ago, #CF8 said:

Schiff takes advantage of old people with money. He seems to make sound fiscal sense but when his ideas are held to the fire his philosophies fall apart because there is no nuance. The reason there is no nuance is because his hardline stance speaks to the no-nonsense elderly who gladly give him their money to "manage". I can't knock his hustle. He is a brilliant salesman.

I think he's really smart but at the end of the day he's selling. Tough to put too much trust into what he says. 

[Stradling]

2 hours ago, Make Angels Great Again said:

Ok, and thoughts on the following sentence?

Here is how I see it and maybe I am seeing it wrong.  Most of the time the largest factor in the price of something is the labor involved in manufacturing it.  So, if Mexican minimum wage is $4 an hour and our minimum wage is over $10 an hour, even with a 20% tariff it will still be more affordable than the American version of the same product. 

[Spirit]

But a company is not going to just eat that additional cost.  They'll pass it on to the consumer. 

 

 

 

[Stradling]

1 minute ago, Geoff said:

But a company is not going to just eat that additional cost.  They'll pass it on to the consumer. 

 

 

 

Exactly, no different than the minimum wage increase.  Of course the company is going to pass the cost on to consumers, it is the only way to make it happen. 

[Spirit]

So Jay & MAGA ... you're paying for the wall.  

Twice!!!!

 

[Ordos]

If they're paying, I'll take a car with it

[Make Angels Great Again]

6 minutes ago, Stradling said:

Here is how I see it and maybe I am seeing it wrong.  Most of the time the largest factor in the price of something is the labor involved in manufacturing it.  So, if Mexican minimum wage is $4 an hour and our minimum wage is over $10 an hour, even with a 20% tariff it will still be more affordable than the American version of the same product. 

 

I'm no economist, but i'm sure there are plenty of other factors involved in regards to what determines the shelf price. As long as there is competition I would think that should determine the final price. Unless the Mexican goods are the absolute cheapest out there or if there is a monopoly on their respective market. Maybe i'm totally off base, but I think the companies would definitely see a hit from the tariffs.

[Blarg]

If it's just the price of fruits and vegetables rising then it fucks over the Vegetarians more than the average Meat is Murder consumer.

#poortank