25% import tariff on imported heavy trucks - effective October 1st

[kscarbel2]

The truck journalists are all slamming the president's action because they have been in the pockets of the truck-building foreign aggressors for years supporting their narrative. The majority of heavy trucks sold in a country as large as the US should be produced in the US. Period.

[mrsmackpaul]

Is there any import tarriff on heavy trucks into the U.S. at the moment ?

I personally don't have any issues with tarriffs as we had them up until the 80's and back then nearly everything you could think of was made in Australia 

All part of the "Agenda 21" and level playing field rubbish has ruined Australian manufacturing 

I suspect the U.S. is similar 

Heck, we used export Australian made cars around the world back then

 

Paul

[james j neiweem]

Not only should they be made in the US but owned by the US Companies. Lets come up with policies to send the Europeans and Japan packing. Tariffs can level the playing field. There aren't enough toes and fingers to count the number of once great American Companies that have been lost to these foreign countries. US government officials and corporate boards of directors should be ashamed of their greed!

[mackey58]

Thanks Nixon for starting trade with china

[mrsmackpaul]

The best thing about tarriffs are people then get to choose how much tax they pay

Support your countries industries and pay less tax, support oversees companies and pay a more tax

The nay sayers will waffle on with a lot of waffle and blame unions and energy costs and what ever else they can think of

But the truth is very different, more people buying and supporting local companies means more workers working paying income tax which means there's less people on handouts, less people sitting around doing nothing, because people are no longer sitting on their backside doing nothing, they are healthier 

Because people are healthier and now have a purpose to life they won't be turning to drugs which means less crime 

So far I can't think of one reason tarriffs are bad or any negative at all

One thing I do know for sure is if driving along a road and turn left instead of right 

The longer you go left for with your head up your bum trying to convince yourself that your going the wrong way the further it is once you do turn around to get bacl to were you last heading the right way

We can keep on running along with our head up our bums B.S.ing to our selves that everything is okay or we can at least stop and look about and ask ourselves "just how the hell did we end up here ?"

Anyway, off my soap box and off to work for me 

 

Paul

[mrsmackpaul]

At least in Australia, back when we had tarriffs and we all worked at building our country 

We had very little crime

Drug use almost didn't exist 

Obesity virtually was none existent 

We only had two genders

Nearly everyone was married 

We believed in working hard and doing whats right 

Been on welfare had a stigma to it and we did our very best to never be on welfare 

Anyway work does call so best bugger off to work 

 

Paul

[mowerman]

On 9/27/2025 at 5:57 PM, mackey58 said:

Thanks Nixon for starting trade with china

Not sure who started the ball rolling but for sure lotsa followers… and most of us are not happy with the results 

[kscarbel2]

20 hours ago, mowerman said:

Not sure who started the ball rolling but for sure lotsa followers… and most of us are not happy with the results 

https://www.breitbart.com/economy/2025/09/29/breitbart-business-digest-how-the-u-s-gave-away-its-technology-edge-to-china/