The Truth About Tariffs - Liberation Day in America
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Alyssa Milano wins a seat on Florida s Supreme Court, and President Trump praises her victory. President Trump announces new tariffs on steel and aluminum, and calls for a border patrol raid on a Mexican immigrant's home. Meanwhile, liberal judge Susan Crawford defeats a primary challenge from a conservative challenger in Wisconsin.
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A commentator, international social media sensation, and former Navy intelligence veteran.
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This is Human Events with your host, Jack Posobiec.
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Liberal judge Susan Crawford has won the race for a seat on the state Supreme Court.
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And President Trump making a post following the results of Florida special elections,
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saying, quote, both Florida House seats have been won big by the Republican candidate.
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Wisconsin's voter ID law is now part of the state constitution.
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All five of us on this set tonight can look you in the eye and say that if you committed
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any of those crimes, then you should be deported immediately.
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You're more concerned about the one guy that was deported than the millions of people that
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were led illegally that went on to wreak havoc in cities like mine.
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President Trump will be joined by auto and steel workers, as well as top Republicans, as
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he announces his reciprocal tariffs at the White House later today.
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And those tariffs are set to go in effect immediately.
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The real pain economically has been the massive inflation coming from bloated overspending
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That is the real pain that the American people have felt the last four years.
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Of 132 different countries and 600,000 different products, U.S. exporters pay higher tariffs
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You see $4 trillion in investment already in President Trump's first two months.
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You see trading partners coming to the table, wanting to renegotiate.
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So, when we're looking at today, what is today all about for President Trump?
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Israel, supposedly, just dropped all their tariffs on American goods.
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I mean, here there's some rumors about China wanting to, or excuse me, Canada wanting to drop theirs.
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China, of course, not dropping anything and their barriers to entry.
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Why did Israel have tariffs on America to begin with?
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Don't we give Israel like a ton of money and military aid?
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But when it really comes down to it, it's a great example.
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It's an example of how America has been taken for granted.
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The working class has been taken for granted so much in this country where the Gini coefficient has gone completely haywire.
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That is the ratio of who has money, of wealth at the top to wealth at the bottom.
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Right now, the wealth is totally consolidated at the top and the wealth at the bottom has shrunk.
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The middle class has fallen out in this country.
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And you go look at, so, the idea of reconstructuring and reconfiguring the global economy.
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But this has been something, obviously, that we've been talking about here on the program for a while.
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The foreign affairs are totally tied into this.
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Winding down in the war in Ukraine is tied into this.
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Bringing Russia on board with rapprochement with China vis-a-vis this new Sino-Soviet split,
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the Sino-Soviet 2.0 split that we've been talking about here.
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But when we're looking at tariffs, why do tariffs matter?
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Tariffs matter because the system of globalization was predicated on this idea that we could outsource and offshore all of our production,
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This builds up the People's Republic of China, the Chinese Communist Party.
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The very final episode is where we talked about the rise of globalization from the blood of the cobblestone streets,
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the cobblestones of Tiananmen Square, 1989, June 4th.
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The Chinese Communist Party was given an idea, was given a deal, essentially,
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from the first Bush administration, Scowcroft going over on the secret mission to say,
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all right, you're going to be the factory of the world,
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and we're going to provide you the IP and the foreign direct investment in order to become that factory.
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We'll get the Lao Baixing to be these factory, you know, work slaves.
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It hollows out the middle class in the United States, hollows out our towns, hollows out our cities,
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And yet people get addicted to the foreign baubles from China,
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So, yeah, you can have your big screen TV, and you can have your little,
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your little, your newest iPhone, newest Samsung, you know.
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Yes, I know Samsung's are Korea, but this is my point.
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The point is, you need to understand what's happening to the world around you, okay?
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They want you locked in this, like, virtual chamber,
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because they don't want you actually interacting with the real world.
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They don't care if the opium dens of the modern age of the 21st century have become your own home.
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They don't care about the deaths of despair that are running roughshod across middle America.
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They look at you as just another economic zone, another economic market for there to apply their goods.
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And China loves it because they're making money every time they sell something.
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Silicon Valley loves it because you're just, you're just a wage slave.
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They're extracting money from and splitting it with the Chinese communist leaders,
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as well as leaders of the Chamber of Commerce and the leaders of Silicon Valley.
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The other option that President Trump is offering is to say,
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guys, what if, what if we actually make America wealthy again?
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There was an entire day at the RNC in Milwaukee dedicated to this.
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But it's something, and we talked about this with Rich Barris the other day,
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And I want the message to get out there better.
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Yes, that does mean you might pay $1 or $2 extra for certain goods.
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You're paying for that Made in America sticker on the bottom.
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You're paying for it to say Made in America again.
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And you're going to see that when things are made in America, guess what?
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We're going to invest in America by actually making the jobs good again,
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by making the manufacturing be strong again, by making all of this do well again.
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Is there going to be a little, look, are we going to have to, you know,
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We're going to have to take our medicine because that's how it works.
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That's how you get off of an addiction is through withdrawal.
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And you're going to see a lot of people that are totally beholden to this system,
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totally and completely beholden to this system say,
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whoa, whoa, wait a minute, you know, you're hurting the Chamber of Commerce.
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Won't someone please think of the poor, poor Chamber of Commerce?
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Won't someone please think of, you know, the poor, poor, you know,
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And so I wanted to bring on someone who's actually written an entire book about this.
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He's the author of Reshore, How Tariffs Will Bring Our Jobs Home
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So this book, we couldn't have planned a better timing for it,
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but what this book is, it's all about how tariffs are going to reshore the factories
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And it ties great into Liberation Day because a big part of the book is describing
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all of the non-economic harms and consequences that have occurred due to offshoring.
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The biggest one being that we're totally dependent on China at this stage for critical components
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that impact our national security and our well-being, right?
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So we import our computer chips, we import steel, we import automobile parts, the whole shebang.
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So, I mean, Liberation Day couldn't come soon enough, Jack.
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And so when we look at this, I think people want to throw around,
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and there's certainly there's formulas, people could talk about it,
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When we're not sending the money overseas, the money stays in America,
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You know, since 1974, we've actually sent $25 trillion abroad, $25 trillion.
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All of that money should have been spent on American-made products.
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I mean, imagine how rich this country would be if we had another $25 trillion in the bank.
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Imagine what our families would look like, by the way,
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because family formation, of course, is tied to all of these things.
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We'll be right back here at Human Events Daily.
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These are influencers, and they're friends of mine.
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All right, folks, we're back here on Human Events Daily.
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We're talking to the author of Reshore, all about how tariffs will bring our jobs home and revive the American dream.
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This is fantastic because what we're getting into, the manufacturing, how it ties to the healthy middle class.
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Talking about how wealth exports hurt American prosperity.
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And talking, of course, about the cultural impacts for diet, fewer marriages.
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But Spencer, talk to me a little bit about these myths regarding tariffs that really you get from these free traders, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and the rest.
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Well, I think one of the biggest myths that's trotted out time and time again is that prices are going to increase.
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And there's two things that I'd like to mention in relation to prices.
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The first thing is that prices are not going to increase, at least not in the long run.
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Anytime you have a big policy shift, there may be some economic dislocation.
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But just look back at 2016 when President Trump instituted tariffs in his first term.
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So this idea that tariffs are like an automatic sales tax on everything is simply not true.
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The reality is that consumers, if they want to avoid the tariff, they can simply buy American.
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I wish most taxes, I wish all taxes were avoidable.
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Now, tariffs are like the only avoidable tax that we have.
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Now, the second point here is that tariffs, they sort of shift the economy away from consumption into production.
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Because most people, you know, work for a living, right?
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So if tariffs are creating millions of jobs by reshoring the factories, what we'll see is an increase in the available disposable income of people, right?
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They always talk about, oh, these free trade goods, they're cheap goods.
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Well, the goods aren't so cheap when you don't have a job or when your wage is directly competing with somebody in China, right?
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They're going to make this trade, you know, that's asymmetrical right now.
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And that's going to allow Americans to compete on solid ground.
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The idea that, and this is so big, because it's not about this idea of free trade.
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We had Secretary Besson on earlier this week, and that's exactly, or excuse me, one week ago.
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And that's exactly what we were talking about, the idea of balancing trade back, getting it to that point.
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So President Trump, obviously, is going to be given this huge press conference later today.
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What are some of the things you're going to be looking for there?
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I just want to go back to the issue of balanced trade.
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What people don't tell you is that we pay for all of the goods that we buy.
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All that means is that we're not trading goods or services for the goods or services that we import, right?
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But we're still paying for it because China is not giving us anything for free.
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So the question then, Jack, becomes, how do we pay for it?
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We have to sell assets or we have to sell debt, right?
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Since 1974, we've bought $25 trillion worth of goods.
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And we've paid for all of that by selling ownership in American companies.
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We've sold trillions of dollars of our real estate, which is driving up housing prices
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and making it impossible for young people to get homes and to afford their rent.
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And then we've piled on all of this debt to our national debt, right?
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So you never get anything for free in the world, right?
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And what we've done is we've prioritized these so-called cheap goods.
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But what we've done is we've driven up housing prices.
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We've bought, you know, we've taken on all of this debt.
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So the question then becomes, inflation of what?
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If we're talking about inflation of consumer goods, it's like, okay.
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But if we're not prioritizing the production of goods,
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all we're doing is we're driving up the costs of the things we used to pay them with, right?
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So you're going to get inflation no matter what.
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So I think really it's just a big smoke show that the economic globalists are, you know, putting on, right?
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When we look at this clearly, what we see is that tariffs are going to create jobs.
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They're going to lower the cost of assets like houses.
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And that's really going to prioritize the middle class.
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I know that didn't answer your question, but it has to be said.
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No, I think that absolutely answers the question.
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Spencer, we're going to have to have you back on, man,
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because I know that this is really going to be the topic going over the next couple months,
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You couldn't have released the book at a better time.
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The book, again, folks, is Reshore, and the author is Spencer Morrison.