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[SvennoJ]

IkePoR said:

crissindahouse said:

No, I don't contradict myself when I say that a country spending let's say 50b with 320m people isn't trying more than a country spending 2b with 5m people. 

You have to be stupid not to understand that. The 50billion are more but it's still less per capita. There is just 0 logic in saying that the smaller country has to catch up and that the bigger country did more as they had to.

But like I said, Homer Simpson wouldn't understand that neither.

USA can obviously blackmail others because their 50b are more than the 2b but the small country still does more with their possibilities.

Okay cool so they can pay their tarrifs then.  You passive-aggressively trying to call me stupid to not get modded is cute, but you agreeing they'll do what America wants is all I care about. 

American consumers are paying the tarrifs... It's an added sales tax on stuff imported from abroad. The other countries aren't paying that, your importers are paying the extra tax. Higher prices, lower sales, less imports, bad for the countries it's imported from. But they're not paying your tarrifs.

Hence retaliatory tarrifs sucks equally bad, since now everything I like to buy from the states is going up in price. Bad for me, bad for American sellers/exporters.

Hence I'll be more inclined to buy stuff from Europe / Asia instead, and exporters will find better markets overseas as well. A trade war between USA and Canada helps no one. Just further shipping as a result, bad for the environment.