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Why tariffs on Mexico and Canada could drive up grocery costs, in 3 charts
https://www.cnn.com/2025/02/01/us/food-prices-tariffs-trump-dg/index.html
"The two countries supply a significant share of several key food categories. For example, Mexico is the largest supplier of fruit and vegetables to the US, while Canada leads in exports of grain, livestock and meats, poultry and more."
Tariffs will halt North American auto production and trigger layoffs: Linamar
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/business/article-tariffs-will-halt-north-american-auto-production-and-trigger-layoffs/
https://web.archive.org/web/20250201191010/https://www.theglobeandmail.com/business/article-tariffs-will-halt-north-american-auto-production-and-trigger-layoffs/
"Ms. Hasenfratz said the costs of the tariffs will be borne by her customers — car makers — who require highly specialized components. It can take 12 to 18 months to source and engineer alternative parts, she said in an interview.
“It would just create an exorbitant amount of cost, and our customers can’t afford to absorb that,” Ms. Hasenfratz said in an interview Saturday. “Consumers certainly aren’t going pay it, so demand will disintegrate. So in my opinion, it wouldn’t be more than a week before we would see vehicle production in North America grind to a halt, and that means millions of people laid off, the majority of which would be in the U.S., and I can’t see how that’s a good thing for America.”"
But the tariffs are going to bring back good American jobs and it’s going to quickly be used to replace my income tax so I’ll be better off.
Right now I’m unemployed and in unemployment insurance but not for long!
Just get on that Nazi messaging site called X and start posting about how Elonazi is and that he is the super smarterest person in universe. You'll be running some section of the government by the end of the month.
Better hope you get a job soon then.
https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-tax-cuts-congress-republicans-plan-slash-benefits
I’ll get one of those jobs that the Canadians stole from us.
Absolutely! For way too long these Canadians have been stealing good paying mounted police from hard-working Americans!