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07/14/25 9:15 AM

#533978 RE: dbergh #533971

There is no "we shall see", those duties are paid for by American importers, full stop. It's what all the economists and large businesses have been warning about since all this nonsense started. It's why prices will start to skyrocket soon.

Financial service companies have nothing to do with it. It's a tax on the American consumer, you know, the people who actually buy the stuff.

Trump can do his little dance on our backs and count all the money coming in because manufacturers and small businesses will either be forced to shutter or have to raise prices significantly to stay competitive. We don't make any of that stuff here and it would take years for anything significant to surface and actually be called "Made in America". By that time your hero will be long gone and we'll all be begging for change at intersections.

Just wait until the 50% on copper goes into effect. Copper is a finite resource that we don't have much of, nor do we have the capability to refine it on the scale that we use it and it's in damn near everything mechanical. It would take at least 10-15 years to build plants like that even if we had enough of it in the ground, which we don't.

Get ready to bend over.