The U.S. lacks the production capacity to meet domestic demand for steel and aluminum, else imports wouldn’t be necessary. I.e. domestic aluminum only covered about 15% of demand in 2024

With a 50% tariff, businesses relying on these materials will still have to import, but at much higher costs.

Trump believes this will boost domestic production, and even if that was true it would take years. However, in reality, it will likely reduce consumption due to skyrocketing prices, leading to lower demand, layoffs, and eventually recession.

The 1920s are calling.

I wonder what exactly would happen if states stopped complying with the federal government.

I’m sure the first thing Trump would do is cut federal funding, but he and his goons are already doing that anyway…

They also wouldn’t be able to export a single car to a any country with fuel efficiency regulations.

Didn’t they say they were all Antifa?

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I thought it’s too late for that now.

Ah yes, the “hitler was good for the economy” bullshit. Even if you’d ignore all the atrocities (which you shouldn’t), fact is that the outcome was a country in ruins.

And Hitler’s economic plan was always based on stealing resources from other countries through war, because else the country’s spending was unsustainable.

Maybe the rumors about Putin having cancer are true, and this is what the scientists told him to not accidentally fall out of a window.