Here's a puzzling question: Why are stocks at record highs despite looming tariffs?

Its funny how the left's go to position is that the tariffs are a price increase on the poor. Yet, you and the opponents of tariffs have yet to talk about the investments being made by the affected countries and the products and services made here that are being exported. Which directly benefits the working class here.

LTC Trent Klug - "the left" do emphasize how tariffs are a price increase because they are literally a price increase. And that impacts middle and low income households that spend between a lot and most of their income on essentials (food, clothes, etc).

Regarding investments being made here; I've posted about that here several times, foreign manufacturers have been investing, building and employing here for decades without us having to "threaten" them with tariffs, which again, are just costs passed on down to us. Foreign auto manufacturers have been building here since the 1970s.

When you offer foreign companies a carrot (tax breaks, loan guarantees, etc), like we have for decades, you get plenty of foreign investment because it's just attractive to make money at a break.

When you threaten foreign countries with a tariff, they may still come here to invest, but we also punished US consumers with another tax.

Which one is smarter for bringing business here?
I like the option that doesn't double the cost of bananas or a pair of pants for me.

SGM Jeff Mccloud However, the left ignores the tariffs that are placed on our goods being sold in foreign countries.

LTC Trent Klug - Which ones?
The tariffs placed on our goods since January, that were in retaliation to this tariff war that we started for no reason, that we otherwise wouldn't have to deal with?

Or the previous tariffs, that did absolutely nothing to stop us from being the runaway largest economy in the world accumulating one third of the world's total wealth?