@ISIDEWITHQuestionseconomyStarted 7yrs agoActive 10mos ago

Should the government add or increase tariffs on products imported into the country?

A tariff is a tax on imports or exports between countries.

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Response rates from 1.9k Independent voters.

28%
Yes
72%
No
24%
Yes
65%
No
3%
Yes, this will help create and save more jobs
4%
No, this will hurt our manufacturing businesses that rely on importing cheap resources to make their products
2%
Yes, our country has been on the losing side of trade deals for too long
2%
No, a global free trade system is better for our businesses and consumers

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 @9DMYHVDfrom Georgia  answered…1yr1Y

Yes, but only if other countries are taking advantage of us.

 @9JZPT6Canswered…10mos10MO

No, we should deregulate the economy to make our country more business-friendly and incetivize local business to not outsource

 @9C3832Lfrom North Carolina  answered…2yrs2Y

Yes, but only if that said country is taking economic advantage of the country.

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 @ISIDEWITH submitted…3wks3W

Mexican Shuts Down 2 Migrant Caravans After Trump Threat

Mexican immigration authorities have broken up two small migrant caravans headed to the U.S. border, activists said Saturday.Some migrants were bused to cities in southern Mexico, and others were offered transit papers.The action comes a week after U.S. President-elect Donald Trump threatened to slap 25% tariffs on Mexican products unless the country does more to stem the flow of migrants to the U.S. border.On Wednesday, Trump wrote that Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum had agreed to stop unauthorized migration across the border into the United States. Sheinbaum wrote on her social media accounts the same day that “migrants and caravans are taken care of before they reach the border.”Migrant rights activist Luis García Villagrán said the breaking-up of the two caravans appeared to be part of “an agreement between the president of Mexico and the president of the United States.”The first of the caravans started out from the southern Mexico city of Tapachula, near the border with Guatemala, on Nov. 5, the day Trump was elected. At its height it had about 2,500 people. In almost four weeks of walking, it had gone about 270 miles (430 kilometers) to Tehuantepec in the state of Oaxaca.In Tehuantepec, Mexican immigration officials offered the tired migrants free bus rides to other cities in southern or central Mexico.“They took some of us to Acapulco, others to Morelia, and others from our group to Oaxaca city,” said Bárbara Rodríguez, an opposition supporter who left her native Venezuela after that country's contested presidential elections earlier this year.Rodríguez said by telephone she later caught a bus on her own to Mexico City.In a statement Saturday, the National Immigration Institute said the migrants voluntary accepted bus rides “to various areas where there is medical assistance and where their migratory status will be reviewed,” and said “upon accepting (the rides), they said they no longer wanted to face the risks along their way.”