Summary
Trump warned automakers not to raise prices after announcing a 25% tariff on imported vehicles starting April 3, claiming the tariffs would be “great” and benefit U.S. manufacturing.
Industry leaders, including GM, Ford, and Stellantis CEOs, expressed concerns about inevitable price increases, with experts warning tariffs could add thousands to car costs.
Auto suppliers stated that absorbing tariffs is impossible, and dealers fear affordability challenges for consumers.
While the United Auto Workers union support the move as a job creator, trade groups predict higher prices and fewer manufacturing jobs.
Funny story.
A while back someone posed a question online. They wanted to know why all Socialist countries fail? I answered that they don’t; look at Canada. They told me that I was a fool, because the Heritage Foundation had showed that Canada was freer than the USA. I asked why we shouldn’t have Canadian style health care? They never got back to me.
Reminded because of the folks you cited.
I mean, socialism is a spectrum. If all you need is “big publicly funded health care system” then the US qualifies via Medicare/Medicaid/VA.
But “why do all socialist countries fail?” might better be answered by the question “why do all socialist countries keep getting invaded?”
From the Bay of Pigs to Operation Condor to the decades long occupations of Vietnam, Korea, the Philippines, and Indonesia… And it’s not just the US. The Germans couldn’t resist charging headlong into Soviet Russia. The French won’t stop repeatedly bombing and sending ground troops into North Africa. Practically every neighbor of Venezuela has sent troops across the border since the Chavez Revolution. Even the UK couldn’t help itself in their Falklands War.
Just about the only thing that deters some kind of invasion by a hostile neighbor is nuclear weapons. That’s kept China and Russia largely insulated even after the end of he USSR. But even nukes couldn’t deter the occasional feint across the border from an overly zealous Indian Hinduvista or Ukrainian ultra-nationalist.
Socialist countries are simply too punchable.
Cool little story and all, but Canada is the furthest thing away from socialist.
Socialism is not when the government does stuff. And the more stuff it does, it doesn’t get more socialist. Even if it does A LOT of stuff, it still won’t be communism.
Socialism/communism is the method and path through which the working class will liberate itself. It’s the death of classes and class struggle through the dictatorship of the proletariat.
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You know, I really don’t care how you define the system as long as it works.
I have been people argue about ‘socialism’ vs. ‘social democracy’ vs ‘communism’ since I was in grade school and none of it has done a drop of good for anyone whatsoever.
While people on the Left are wasting time arguing, the people on the Right are voting. They are the ones who keep winning because they keep their eyes on the prize.
Donald Trump is literally throwing people in jail for speaking out, and expanding the Gaza genocide right now, and you’re focusing on how I define 'socialism.
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You never answered the main point.
Where did you get the impression that the Marxist definition of socialism was even relevant here? Bringing philosophical jargon into colloquial conversations is basically trolling at this point since philosophical/social studies jargon often use words that have zero semantic overlap with their colloquial counterpart.
Proselytize all you want but if you “um akshully” socialism in a colloquial conversation you will look like an unwashed cave troll at best.