OPINION:
Don’t believe the lies about the tariffs. President Trump was right: The mainstream media is the enemy of the people. It’s hoping Trump’s tariffs will fail. To accomplish that failure, no lie about tariffs is off limits.
What the mainstream media doesn’t tell people is that foreign nations make far more money from trade with us than we do with them, and the reason is high tariffs. Canada has a 250% tariff on U.S. dairy products, for example. Our tariff on Canadian goods is now 25%. As a result of high tariffs around the world, you won’t see American cars in Japan and Europe. All you see in Japan are Toyotas.
The media doesn’t tell people that a 20% tariff doesn’t equal 20% inflation. In Trump’s first term, a 20% tariff on China only increased prices .07%. Tariffs generate income. In fact, from our founding until 1913, our government’s income came mainly from tariffs. We’ll have some short-term pain, but in the long run, Trump’s tariffs will benefit Americans by either forcing foreign companies to build their factories in the U.S. to avoid the tariffs (thereby providing jobs for Americans) or reduce their tariffs on U.S. goods, which will increase our exports and provide even more jobs for Americans.
All Trump has done is tell the countries of the world, ’Until now, you have placed a 30% tariff on our goods and we have placed a 5% tariff on yours. If you don’t reduce your tariffs to 5%, we’ll raise ours to 30%.’ And for that, the mainstream media and the Democrats (who want to see Trump fail) claim that he’s starting a trade war that will crash our markets. They are simultaneously spreading fear and lies to insure that crash.
President Trump is playing a game of high-stakes poker with the rest of the world. If he fails, America fails. The bottom line is, if the mainstream media succeeds with its lies and fear mongering, it will actually destroy the opportunity for jobs and prosperity. I wish the Democrats and the media would stop not just hoping but working for Trump to fail.
CONRAD QUAGLIAROLI
Woodstock, Georgia
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