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Miles Archer

(18,837 posts)
Sat May 11, 2019, 01:47 PM May 2019

SEE if you can find ANY holes in Trump's "Such an easy way to avoid Tariffs" logic.

Donald J. Trump
@realDonaldTrump

Such an easy way to avoid Tariffs? Make or produce your goods and products in the good old USA. It’s very simple!
9:55 AM · May 11, 2019 · Twitter for iPhone




Aaron Rupar
@atrupar

Workers at iPhone factories in China make less than $5 per hour. Relocating those jobs to the US isn’t as “simple” as Trump seems to think.


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SEE if you can find ANY holes in Trump's "Such an easy way to avoid Tariffs" logic. (Original Post) Miles Archer May 2019 OP
Big talk from the jerk who continually slaps his name on things someone else made. tanyev May 2019 #1
estimate of the number of people hours to make iphone - 24 lapfog_1 May 2019 #2
Any idea on how much ... GeorgeGist May 2019 #5
It's simple to a simpleton. spanone May 2019 #3
Lead by example, numbnutz world wide wally May 2019 #4
All those Trump family products made overseas because he does not want to pay Americans. keithbvadu2 May 2019 #9
great idea onethatcares May 2019 #6
How many motherboard & smaller electronics manufacturering plants does he think are ready to go? Brainfodder May 2019 #7
Only 40 years late. moondust May 2019 #8

lapfog_1

(29,199 posts)
2. estimate of the number of people hours to make iphone - 24
Sat May 11, 2019, 01:58 PM
May 2019

China labor cost - $120
US labor cost - $480... (skilled labor @ $20/hour)

increase in the cost of an iphone - $360

Probably increase in price to consumer - $500

onethatcares

(16,167 posts)
6. great idea
Sat May 11, 2019, 03:41 PM
May 2019

let me know when Carrier brings back the factory they sent to Mexico, or any of the auto makers fire up their steel plants up in Pennsylvania, or the North Carolina furniture manufacturers are doing business with the South Carolina textile industries.

yeah, he's a stable genius ok.

Brainfodder

(6,423 posts)
7. How many motherboard & smaller electronics manufacturering plants does he think are ready to go?
Sat May 11, 2019, 03:49 PM
May 2019

The layers of this onion are more than he can handle!

Meanwhile our royal orangeness is clearly in need of down time and a reboot, please inform his handler Melania, thank you!

That much golfing and avoiding transparency, we all need a break?


moondust

(19,979 posts)
8. Only 40 years late.
Sat May 11, 2019, 03:56 PM
May 2019

*Might* have worked 40 years ago before Reagan and globalization encouraged corporations to minimize the power of unions and "big gubment" in order to maximize profits and ROI for management and shareholders by moving jobs offshore to cheap labor markets where hordes of desperate people are happy to work for beans. (Their communist/autocratic governments will make sure of that! ) Now after 40 years the supply chains and distribution channels are all set up for global trade and corporate profit/ROI maximization. I doubt the corporations and Wall Street are much interested in Donny's little plan.

Idiot.

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