“We are going to be announcing very shortly a major tariff on pharmaceuticals,” President Donald Trump says at a National Republican Congressional Committee Dinner.
It would take years to build out the necessary infrastructure in the US to do everything Trump is fantasizing about. Here’s my guess as to what will likely happen instead:
All the major corporations, seeing how unpredictable the US has become, will instead pour piles of money into Democratic coffers thanks to Citizens United. Between that and the damage Trump inflicts over the next two years hopefully the midterm elections will give the Democrats the ability to impeach & convict him, or at least pass veto-proof legislation to rescind his tariff powers.
At least that would be a more economical way to deal with the issue…
The easiest and cheapest way for large corporations to deal with the issue is by giving Trump kick-backs, in exchange for special tariff exemptions. This is why tariffs are a gold-mine for corrupt practices.
Much of the new manufacturing will be highly automated, to minimize the human factor.
Those that aren’t automated, will be Asian-style sweatshops, with low wages, no unions, teen labor, no health/ safety/ environmental regulations, no benefits, no minimum wage, forced overtime, no overtime pay, harsh working conditions, discrimination, sexual harassment. etc. When unemployment is in the double digits, especially in smaller municipalities, people will jump at the chance to work any job.
Some people are excited at the prospect of those high-paying manufacturing jobs coming back to America, and nobody is dissuading them of that idea, and nobody from the media is asking about it. But think about it for a second - if the Sociopathic Oligarchs want to restart manufacturing in America, why would they emulate the model that drove manufacturing overseas in the first place? They have the chance to create an entirely new business model for this, does anyone honestly think they are going to do it in a way that benefits American workers in any way? Or will they structure it to exploit our labor force as much as possible?
It would take years to build out the necessary infrastructure in the US to do everything Trump is fantasizing about. Here’s my guess as to what will likely happen instead:
All the major corporations, seeing how unpredictable the US has become, will instead pour piles of money into Democratic coffers thanks to Citizens United. Between that and the damage Trump inflicts over the next two years hopefully the midterm elections will give the Democrats the ability to impeach & convict him, or at least pass veto-proof legislation to rescind his tariff powers.
At least that would be a more economical way to deal with the issue…
Interesting prediction. Here’s mine: American companies will see the isolationist policies and chaos as bad for business, and just pack up and leave.
International companies will. American companies will go out of business. Taco Bell will buy up the rest.
The easiest and cheapest way for large corporations to deal with the issue is by giving Trump kick-backs, in exchange for special tariff exemptions. This is why tariffs are a gold-mine for corrupt practices.
Much of the new manufacturing will be highly automated, to minimize the human factor.
Those that aren’t automated, will be Asian-style sweatshops, with low wages, no unions, teen labor, no health/ safety/ environmental regulations, no benefits, no minimum wage, forced overtime, no overtime pay, harsh working conditions, discrimination, sexual harassment. etc. When unemployment is in the double digits, especially in smaller municipalities, people will jump at the chance to work any job.
Some people are excited at the prospect of those high-paying manufacturing jobs coming back to America, and nobody is dissuading them of that idea, and nobody from the media is asking about it. But think about it for a second - if the Sociopathic Oligarchs want to restart manufacturing in America, why would they emulate the model that drove manufacturing overseas in the first place? They have the chance to create an entirely new business model for this, does anyone honestly think they are going to do it in a way that benefits American workers in any way? Or will they structure it to exploit our labor force as much as possible?