If only that agreement had come at a time when inflation was dooming Trump’s opponent.
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The poll also showed some voters do not know how tariffs work. Though 78% of Americans felt confident they understand what a tariff is, only 48% correctly answered that American companies pay the tariffs. Nearly half of Republicans (47%) incorrectly said that foreign countries are responsible for paying tariffs, compared with 32% of Democrats.
32% is still a little embarrassing, but you’ll never get every single citizen to learn the same fact.
47% is more embarrassing when tariffs were probably Trump’s next largest campaign pillar after being anti-LGBTQ.
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Trump was campaigning on universal tariffs, so saying that he will impose conditional tariffs which can go away if he says that the conditions are met is arguably an improvement.
Problems are going to magically appear and disappear like migrant caravans in Central America coming north to the U.S.-Mexico border. The entire way, Trump is going to blame Democrats for “causing” them and then take credit for “fixing” them.
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It’s one of the few things that haven’t changed about the Republicans
Canada seems to be more heavily exposed than I expected.
2.6% hit to real GDP if its a 25% tariff
Thats a definite recession then.
The strategy is simple. Just make Trump think he has won something and he will move on to his next win.
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If everything got tariffed 25% we would indeed have a recession. However, the tariffs will not be applied to everything as certain US industries will beg for exemptions.
Never underestimate the power or idiots in large groups.
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Some folks have apparently forgotten the lessons of Trump 1.0.
Trump backed off significantly on Canadian tariffs in his first term and ended up agreeing on a new trade agreement with minimal concessions. This term could be worse but he has a more ambitious agenda this time around so hope he might get distracted by other issues.
Does the waffle house serve canadian maple syrup?
Pretty sure most of its syrup has never seen a maple tree.
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Stalks, mostly.
Maple syrup here in the US is marketed as a luxury item. Twice or three times the price of old-black-maid syrups.
Oh good. Nobody will notice an additional 25% tacked on to the price.
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I only buy the good stuff, although some comes from Vermont. It’s funny, I grew up kind of poor so we only ever had the cheap stuff. I got to college and had a friend from Rhode Island, and somehow this came up and he was like ‘we are making pancakes right now and you’re going to try real maple syrup.’ Changed my life.
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Best maple syrup I ever had was what I used to help my dad make from our own trees when I was a kid.
Maybe it just tasted better because of all the hours required to tap the trees, gather the sap in buckets and boil it outdoors in a giant pan. Nobody does it like that now except our Amish neighbours. Picked up some Amish syrup on my last Ontario visit and it was good. I expect the Amish don’t export any to the US though.
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I think if you go to a sugar shack they will do it like that. Not sure.
Only if it is a tiny operation. The syrup producers nowadays usually have pipelines running from the trees to their boiling vats: we used to hang buckets from the trees and collect the buckets each day and carry them to a pan where we dumped the sap. We would have an open air fire under the pan boiling the sap. Very primitive by today’s standards.
It would take all day for us to get one or two gallons of syrup, just for our consumption.