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PatrickforO

(14,570 posts)
17. Well, watch the market tank on this news.
Wed Aug 28, 2019, 09:57 PM
Aug 2019

Seventy percent of our economy is based on consumption. You put a 15% tariff on Chinese imports and you ruin Christmas for millions of US families, not to mention retailers.

Oh, boy, Wall Street is going to scream on this one too. Of course the greed-heads will sell short, but sane people will realize this is a really bad thing, based on a really stupid policy.

That and the giant tax cut for billionaires and corporations that has basically busted the budget and ballooned the national debt.

Our person, whoever we elect, is going to inherit a real shit show of a mess to clean up.

There need to be trials for some of these criminals, starting with the orange maggot.

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