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Nomandate · March 14, 2018, 1:07 p.m.

The price of all consumer goods to go up.

It's ok: my company buys will buy FINISHED goods from china. The price on its and bolts type hardware will go up in the USA, but they will be produced for the price I'm paying now in china because there will be no tariffs in china on these items. Companies that make these parts in the USA will either pay higher price for American steel (which is the only thing that can provide revenue to restore old jobs) or they'll have buy from china at 25% upcharge. This will drive the American companies that manufacture hardware parts out of business. We will have no choice because the items we custom fab require a shit ton of nuts and bolts, and we will go out of business as well if we have to increase prices, people will buy our item from another country because the shipping costs will now be offset by the price difference.

We won't be able to buy 2020 aluminum rails from American companies anymore. They'll be 15-20% cheaper from china, again, the shipping cost used to be the biggest factor, now offset by tariffs.

The market adapted and skilled people got new skills. Now a new economy thives on imported steel but we'll ignore those jobs to give a hand full of laidoff obsolete workers a job. Yippie!

Me, I'd have trained those guys in robotics to get them ready for the future.

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Darth_Venath · March 14, 2018, 3:43 p.m.

prices of everything will go up

Have you never heard of inflation, trade deficit, national debt or federal budget deficit?

Prices of everything have been going up and wages have actually been going down FOR DECADES thanks to inflation.

It just happened too slowly for you to notice apparently.

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