{"id":280277,"date":"2018-07-25T15:45:00","date_gmt":"2018-07-25T19:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/?p=280277"},"modified":"2018-07-26T16:06:52","modified_gmt":"2018-07-26T20:06:52","slug":"the-truth-about-trumps-tariffs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2018\/07\/25\/the-truth-about-trumps-tariffs\/","title":{"rendered":"The Truth About the Trump Tariffs"},"content":{"rendered":"

RUSH: The tariffs subject is something I haven\u2019t spent enough time on. And I need to, because as I figured was gonna happen, there\u2019s a lot of misunderstanding about Trump and his tariffs and what the endgame is. And the reason this needs to be brought up is that Trump just tweeted there\u2019s an EU leader coming to Washington tomorrow.<\/p>\n

Trump tweeted that he\u2019s gonna propose a new economic arrangement with the European Union.  It is to get rid of all tariffs, get rid of all taxes, get rid of all fees.  Let\u2019s have a really fair and let\u2019s have a really free and let\u2019s have a really open market — and then he tweets that of course the EU won\u2019t go along with it because they want punitive tariffs on American goods.  But they do not want any tariffs on goods from the European Union brought into the United States.<\/p>\n

\"\"Same situation here with the ChiComs, and I think the great misunderstanding people have is who\u2019s responsible for the tariffs.  In the larger scheme of things, it\u2019s the ChiComs.  The ChiComs are the ones who literally have tariffs on their own goods first, before we do anything.  The Chinese and other trading partners who have these punitive policies on American goods? They started this.  This is not a United States problem in which we are culprit.  This is Donald Trump trying to level the playing field.  This is Trump giving them a dose of their own medicine.<\/p>\n

This is Trump trying to bring pressure on them to drop their tariffs and their unfair trade practices which are harming American agriculture, exports, farmers, you name it, other manufacturers and retailers are being harmed by Chinese tariffs, European Union tariffs, not us.  Trump is simply trying to level the playing field by tightening the screws on them.  Now, once that starts, once you impose a tariff policy — which, of course, conservatives are on paper are supposed to be universal opposed to because a tariff is nothing but a tax.<\/p>\n

And, of course, we oppose taxes simply on the movement of goods and services. But we didn\u2019t start it.  Trump campaigned on this. When he talked during the campaign about American leaders being stupid and dumb and lazy, it was this specific issue he was talking about with tariffs.  The Chinese have been allowed to manipulate their currency to effect international trade.  They\u2019ve been allowed to use tariffs.<\/p>\n

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The amount of American goods going into China is paltry compared to how much China manufacturers come into the United States.  Trump is trying to fix that, and he\u2019s doing that by imposing tariffs.  But we\u2019re not the bad guy!  This is part of fixing a great imbalance.  The Chinese are the bad guys.  The European Union is the bad guys.  But I don\u2019t think there are enough — even on the conservative side of the aisle here — who understand how to properly talk about this, because there\u2019s so much eagerness to criticize Trump.<\/p>\n

There is such a desire to make it look like Trump doesn\u2019t know what he\u2019s doing that the instinctive thing to do is to criticize Trump.  “He\u2019s imposing tariffs!  This is bad.  This is horrible.  This is a trade war.”  The trade war has been going on for the longest time, and we have been essentially bending over, grabbing the ankles.  Those days are over.  But once you commit to it, you have to stay with it, or the whole thing is gonna be a big bomb.  We\u2019ve gotta stay with this until the other side — in this case the ChiComs, European Union — buckle.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s what\u2019s going on.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH:  Trump could have done nothing on these tariffs and he could have sat back and let the stock market soar.  But Trump promised he was gonna do this.  He\u2019s trying to level out international trade for the benefit of American manufacturers and employees at whatever harm it brings to him.  He\u2019s gonna see this through.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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