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Bluetus

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31. The most basic question: what we tariffs supposed to accomplish?

Fri Feb 20, 2026, 06:12 PM

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Ostensibly Trump was going to use them to force manufacturing jobs to come back to the USA.

We know what actually happened. Trump used these as extortion to get special deals to enrich himself. How many times did Trump announce huge tariffs on a single country or region, then quietly drop them a week or two later? You can be certain that nearly every such instance corresponded with a donation to the inaugural fund, the ballroom fund, the Trump golden shoes fund, the Trump crypto coin fund, a Trump PAC or whatever. It was all about extortion, that is obvious.

But the question is what good an across-the-board tariff of 10% accomplishes. It doesn't provide any real incentive for anybody to do anything. Nobody is going to relocate a major manufacturing operation for 10%. And if he is applying it equally to all countries, then that limits the extortion leverage.

Bottom line, this looks like simply a face saving ploy. It doesn't matter. Our jobs now is to force Trump to refund all those tariffs to individuals

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And we're paying for his tantrums. StarryNite Friday #14

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