Dwain Northey (Gen X)

So today is the big impose tariffs on our allies day. The day that dear leader has the masses believing that by imposing these tariffs that Canada, Mexico, China and anyone else he is slapping these tariffs on will just start handing the treasury millions of dollars. Sadly doesn’t work that way… importers of goods from those countries pay the tariff, let’s just call it a tax, and they intern pass it on to us.

The “business man” also seems to believe that magically manufacturing and supply lines will just appear. Factories that have been shut down for decades will by the will of Trump reopen , fields will suddenly produce more vegetables and fruits, just like professor Dumbledore snapping his fingers in the great hall and feeding all the students at Hogwarts.

We don’t live in Donald’s imagination and his mistaken interpretation of how this will work is going to cause a  recession or worse.