They SHOULD respond with a boycott. They wouldn’t be losing out if the government made it widely known what products to avoid if possible. Not buying American products doesn’t mean they lose out of there is a suitable substitute, but they have to be made aware. It was just a suggestion. There are other ways too. Like this refusal to sell America electricity thing. I’m sure there are others that don’t involve taxing Canadians.

I’m not sure what you’re struggling with. Yes a price change will not affect those who are not buying the product. But not buying the product is the goal in both cases. Remember tariffs don’t always affect just one product. A tax on steel will affect everything made from steel. And not everyone will avoid the product. I suppose you could argue that those Canadians who buy the product should be punished but that’s what I’m arguing against. In the US avoiding products made in China is nearly impossible so we have to suffer with the tariffs, which China probably won’t.

Well the US collects taxes and a tariff is a tax so yeah, it will generate funds to run the government. I think this is why Trump likes them. He sees a huge influx in the taxes collected. Plus his followers are so stupid they think China/Canada/Mexico is paying them. Win/win for him. No wonder he thinks it’s the greatest word in the dictionary.

That’s exactly what I’m saying. Canada imposing retaliatory tariffs on the US hurts Canadians. The boycott thing is just a suggestion but that would hurt the US without hurting Canadians. People keep saying a tariff on China or a tariff on Canada when it’s really just a tax on Americans. So by phrasing it that way it reinforces the idea in people’s minds that the tariff adversely affects the targeted country, when that is rarely the case. But it ALWAYS hurts the people of the country that imposed the tariff. So imposing tariffs on the US is really just saying Canada wants to attack Canadians and hope there is an adverse affect on the US.

As I said, my issue is it rarely affects the targeted country, but ALWAYS affects the targeting country since it’s THAT country that pays the tariff. It’s literally a tax imposed on citizens in hopes that it will cause them to stop buying a product from another country.

I’m the case of the US, we hardly make anything, so people just have to pay more. China doesn’t play fair so they can just subsidize the companies that make our products. Plus many of their products cost so much less than ours you can pay extra and still save money over buying American.

The last time Trump was president he imposed tariffs on washing machines, making them more expensive than foreign machines. What happened? American companies raised the price of their machines to match, negating any benefit of the tariff. I’m addition they raised the price of dryers, which people often buy at the same time.

Agreed. And it’s not like you’re going to find a GOOD company to invest in. But I do think that some companies are just too evil to support. And I certainly wouldn’t go talking Elon up just because I made money on the stock.

You could try just distancing yourself from him. You don’t know what the future brings. Maybe something will happen to bring him around to your way of thinking and then you haven’t burned any bridges. I mean it may come to a confrontation, but you’re there already, so no real loss.

Agree to disagree. Taxing your own people in response is just as stupid as taxing your people to start with. It just reassures my belief that none of these politicians care about their people.

I really wish they would stop phrasing it as if the tariffs are against countries. They are against the people of the country imposing the tariffs, in this case the US. And it just continues the false perception that China, Canada, etc are paying. I’m really disappointed that Canada is imposing tariffs on its people in retaliation. A better response would have been to launch a massive publicity campaign to encourage Canadians to boycott American products; maybe post en masse what products are from which countries. That seemed to be gaining traction in Canada without the campaign.

Yes I do know that tariffs CAN negatively impact the county the tariff is imposed on, but face it, you can impose a 100% tariff on China and they can still undersell our products at half the cost and if they can’t, the Chinese government can just subsidize that product.

My cars are all over 20 years old. I won’t have to worry about that for a while. Well,I do have a 2020 vehicle but it’s temporary.

You probably feel that way because this is what it feels like when evil wins.