The fact that this is even news in 2026 is amusing enough. What is in funnier, is those that are outraged? Did not even try to find out that the numerals currently used everywhere in the world are actually Arabic. The other numbers are Romans. It’s a bit like that student a few years ago who tried to have water banned a school property because he said hydroxide oxygenated was a dangerous solvent. He just can’t make this shit up.
The issue is simple. What percentage of the economy is dependent on tariff goods? The truth, is that the US economy is far more closed than people understand. People genuinely believe that all manufacturing has ceased to exist in the United States all given to China on the altar of woke policy the truth can be further from That statement. Only about 15% of US GDP is related to foreign trade. Of that amount, slightly more than half is from Canada in Mexico. And half of that is energy. What that means, is that about 7% of US GDP is tariff dependent. The proof in the pudding, is how little money tariff generates. People think that 30 or 50 billion is a lot it’s not in an economy that has $3 trillion. The impact on the US economy will be less visible but not absent. Inflation hasn’t occurred yet first because tests have hardly started to bite, but more importantly it’s such a small percent of the economy. Now certain things are critical. The rare earth metals from China were critical....
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