Over the last five years the average GDP growth of Brazil is -0.8%. During the same time the U.S, without tariffs, was 2.9%. GDP is Brazil is 1.9T, GDP in the U.S. is 20.5T. GDP per capita in Brazil is $9K, GDP per capita in the U.S. is $63k. Inflation in Brazil is 3.7%, inflation in the U.S. is 2.8%. Unemployment in Brazil is 12.5%, in the U.S. it is 4.2%.
So what is the argument here? We can follow the "king of tariffs" and have a shitty economy like Brazil? Thanks, I'd rather keep the good.
Cult members, please note the comparison of the economic data from a tariff heavy country like Brazil and the not tariff heavy U.S.
Those statistics from Brazil aren't necessarily caused from the tariffs. They're still faults leftover from corruption or lower productivity, stuff like that. Why you saying "Cult members", it's not like we believe in a man that should be eating steak and potatoes in rehab and a McDonalds worker.
So the person I responded to was touting tariffs as the reason things were going well with the Brazilian economy. The problem with that is the Brazilian economy is not good. Could the Brazilian economy be craptastic for other reasons? Sure, but that claim I was responding to sure seems to think it is something to be emulated. Context is important when reading.
Why is a cult? Let's see, a cult is a religious movements and other social groups which have unusual, and often extreme, religious, spiritual, or philosophical beliefs and rituals.Extreme devotion to a particular person, object, or goal.
MAGA is a social group with unusual and extreme beliefs and an extreme devotion to a single person. Y'all are in a cult.
Other countries have tariffs on us, but we don't have any on them..
Yes, that is the lie you've been fed. In reality, all countries have tariffs, including the US. And the US's have usually been much higher than other country's.
Even before last week, the weighted average tariffs that the US imposed on China were 3.7 TIMES what China charged. And for the UK is was a mere 2.5 TIMES.
So anyone that tells you that the US didn't charge them, or that they charged less, or that anyone other than the US was being 'unfair' was either grossly misinformed or, in almost every case, lying through their teeth.
Beware of bright orange compulsive liars pretending not to lie to you.
I still have yet to find actual evidence of high tariffs in the US. I searched through websites and didn't find those stats about China and the UK. Obviously there are still going to be small tariffs on industrial goods, but that's small compared to what Trump is doing. I did find that Trump peaked at increasing Tariffs to about %17.5 in 2018 on China, but never to 3.7 Times. Where is your evidence?
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Why is a cult? Let's see, a cult is a religious movements and other social groups which have unusual, and often extreme, religious, spiritual, or philosophical beliefs and rituals. Extreme devotion to a particular person, object, or goal.
MAGA is a social group with unusual and extreme beliefs and an extreme devotion to a single person. Y'all are in a cult.