You keep saying this, but you never present any facts, just unsubstantiated opinion. I for one have agreed with many things Trump has done. But my arguments against his trade policy are s
upported by history and by expert opinion from both sides of the aisle. No one here has ever responded to that evidence other that to say "anti-Trumper". Business people and economists on both sides of the aisle say tariffs are bad for our economy. I have presented evidence of this which has been ignored.
Bush's steel tariffs did not work and Trump's are no different. Trump's lumber tariffs have already added $6000 to the cost of the average new house. As I said here many times, Trump's own people said that his tariffs would increase the cost of living by up to 15%. No one here has even tried to argue that is wrong, or that the tariffs would be a net benefit in spite of that.
The one argument repeated over and over is that Trump is rich and therefore must be smarter than anyone here. You don't have to know trade and tariffs to make money in NY real estate or as the "talent" on a mediocre TV show. When Trump got out of his area, like casinos, he failed.
His own top advisors have opposed his trade policies. Gary Cohn, who has much better financial credentials than Trump, quit over the tariffs. Cohn's replacement, Larry Kudlow, is also opposed to tariffs.
https://www.cnn.com/2018/03/06/polit...ffs/index.html
More detailed objective arguments by Cohn as to why the tariffs are bad policy here:
http://www.businessinsider.com/gary-...ax-cuts-2018-5
Steel tariffs will be a really good thing for the 150,000 people in the steel industry. They will hurt the 5 million people in industries that use steel as an input and all consumers that buy anything made with steel. How about some objective arguments showing that the tariffs will help the American consumer, rather than dismissing opposition as anti-Trumper?
