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The Republican-controlled US government has decided to impose a 25% tax on American imports of goods from Canada (lemmy.ca)
submitted 1 day ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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Language matters.

The President is empowered by a Congress controlled by a narrow majority. Rather than the individual they have chosen, I am pissed at the Republican party. And disappointed in the American people. The guy? He was always that way and would have continued to be so at a safe distance from the levers of power without his enablers.

It is the American and especially Republican relationship with Canada that is important in this situation. Those are what endure, that person is only momentarily significant. So, where we can choose the narrative, I think that's important to focus on.

Plus I suspect he likes the sound of his own name.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours ago) (1 children)

Mexico is the US' biggest trading partner.

Both Mexico and China have the advantage of selling cheap goods to the US due to low labor costs.

Canada can hurt the US but the approach has to be different. The US backed off on the 25% tarriff on oil because they know it would hurt a little too much. Canada should impose an export tax on oil so that Americans in Northern states feel the pain when gas is a dollar more per gallon.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 20 hours ago

Mexico didn’t do some blanket tariffs they didn’t need to throw their weight around that hard. They stopped an Obama admin policy by hitting like 6 major products and when Trump did his bullshit they got a NAFTA 2.0 (which was basically just an updated with slight shifts for the US on some fronts but basically is 95% the same as the old one) operating the same way. They don’t need blanket tariffs, they just need to hit a few particular spots, which Canada is more than capable of doing.