Comic Strips

Really not the time to sleep on China if you want to keep your Imperial empire guys.

China completely ravaged US manufacturing and y'all are still in the corner wanking over 'cheap Chinese product.'

China doesn't just make the cheap things you use. They make everything you use.

Stop licking your wounds with petulent little jabs like this and start finding a way to compete. You know, the way your sacred free market dictates that you should.

China went from making cheap things to making everything you use cheap with either you or the American corporation you purchased from pocketing the difference.

They're on a path to making things better than the US and once they do, we'll have a new world order. If the US doesn't wake up now, the second half of this century will be very different than the past 150 years.

The right time for Chinese tariffs was 1980.

She got thinner

If tariffs worked at all like Donnie portrays, to revitalize domestic production and promote local jobs, to help balance a trade deficit, and allow for market choice based on quality more than price, it might be useful.

The reality though is that the American manufacturing and industry space is functionally dead. We've shipped production elsewhere to reduce costs and that's not something that'll get reversed in any short order. All his big talk will do nothing beyond get the additional costs passed onto the buying public while the producers keep laughing all the way to the bank. They'll take any extra taxes gained and put it into the military budget and continue stripping public good services to the bone all while cheering how great we've become. Look at the new carrier group we'll build! So much winning for us both domestically and abroad!

The next four years will be fascinating to watch.

This comic misses the incentive for local businesses to chase the new profit margin created by the tariff.

If your competition is import goods, you may sell a quality product at $2, with the import version at $1.50. If the tariff causes the import to rise to $2.50, then the local capitalist will raise to $2.40. There’s no reason not to take the extra profit made from a selfish perspective.

Alternatively, the importer could leave the market. But now you have a monopoly, which again, is anti-competitive and leads to raised prices and malicious practices without consumer protections, which the administration seems to be firing.

These are great moves for capital owners to reshape and control market. Consumers will suffer.