Trump says tariffs on Canada and Mexico coming Saturday, and he's deciding whether to tax their oil

So remember those biden "i did that" stickers people were putting on gas pumps?

Got any trump flavored?

Good.... keep making the country worse. Maybe, just maybe, more people will start to take notice how awful this moron is.

But who am I kidding?

Well, the prices of everything are about to skyrocket and will never come back down. Once companies see that consumers will pay these inflated prices (because they have no other choice if they want to do things like eat or drive), that's going to become the new price. Even if the tariffs are rescinded later, the decreased tariffs will just turn into more profit for the corporation, not lower prices for the consumer.

This is just going to turn into nothing more than lost jobs, skyrocketing inflation, and probably a recession.

And why would anyone ever "negotiate a deal" with Trump again? He already threatened them with a 10% tariff once before, and got them to commit to spending $1.3 billion on a "border control problem" that doesn't actually exist. Then he slaps bigger tariffs on them anyway? Who in their right mind is going to want to negotiate in good faith knowing full well that Trump can and will just go "eh....nah" on a whim and renege on his end of the deal because fuck you that's why? Especially since Trump's biggest problem is supposedly our current trade deal with Mexico and Canada, which Trump crafted back in 2020 in the first place.

Remember the day: January 31, 2024 will soon be known as the day that prices were at their lowest during Trump's entire administration. It's all uphill from here. Fast.

Canada should just add a export tax. Why should the US government get the money.

Please do tariff Canadian oil... fuck we need some motivation for Alberta to stop being a damn petrol state.

Well good luck fellow Americans! You voted and sat on your asses for this bullshit!

Stealing this from another comment:

The Agreement between the United States of America, Mexico, and Canada (USMCA) was entered into force on July, 1, 2020, under the USMCA Implementation Act, H.R. 5430; Public Law 116-113. It replaces the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) which was in force from January 1, 1994 to June 30, 2020.

Hmm who was president in 2020?

https://www.cbp.gov/trade/priority-issues/trade-agreements/free-trade-agreements/USMCA/FAQs

I assume he has a plan to redo all our refineries to handle our higher quality oil we can get more on the foreign market with usually?

You have hopes up to at a 10; I'm gonna need you to takeaway 80% from that, Bud.