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GoreWon2000

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8. Trade protectionism/Smoot-Hawley tariffs caused 1930's depression
Mon Mar 31, 2025, 02:19 PM
Mar 31

History teaches that tariffs are job killers. There's no better example than the great depression of the 1930s. In addition, tRump is too stupid to know that many of the parts in "American made" cars are actually made overseas. tRump's tariffs will cause the price of American cars to go up too. History further teaches that tariffs have never brought jobs back home to the U.S. tRump's gutting of the Infrastructure law and the CHIPs act which were designed to create more U.S. jobs and bring back manufacturing jobs to the U.S. wi/l also be job killers. I guess we'll find out if people think that maintaining the unqualified, white, anglo, christian male only powerbase is more important to them than having a job and being able to pay their monthly bills like, food, mortgage or rent, a dew clothes, paying for a car, educating their kids, ectc.

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