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   AT>I'm convinced that everything Trump does is a good thing. I keep hearing all   
     >se warnings about him, but nothing he does ever seems to hurt.   
      
   You do realize that your stock market has lost about $4 Trillion   
   since the threat of Tariffs started..  ?  That is money out of the   
   pockets of anyone who has investments in the market and companies   
   are terrified to spend money on expansion since they are worried   
   they may be in a situation where they will be losing money for years.   
      
   RM> It is already costing your small businesses Billions of dollars.   
   RM> Canadians have already cut vacations and shopping trips down there   
   RM> by 500,000 fewer than normal for this time of year. How much money   
   RM> would half a million tourists spend there in a month and what is   
   RM> that doing to hotels and restaurants and retailers?   
      
   AT>These numbers sound like they are highly manipulatable. It could all be   
   based   
     > a survey that was taken on 10 Canadians from the streets of Vancouver.   
      
   That info came strictly from counting the drop in the number of cars   
   crossing the border and plane passengers heading to the USA compared   
   to this same time last year. And there have been Thousands of people   
   who have cancelled trips to the USA even when it cost them thousands   
   of dollars to walk away from a scheduled vacation in the USA.   
   Travel agencies say that trips they usually arrange have dropped by   
   over 40%.   
      
   There are American businesses near the border who say they are   
   looking at bankruptcy due to the drop in Canadian day trippers   
   they rely on to survive, which is just sad. It seems that the   
   only way to get back at Trump is to cause enough grief there that   
   he can't continue to ignore the harm his policies are doing.   
      
   RM> It's not the American people's fault and we know that but   
   RM> to fight back we can really only do the small stuff that hurts   
   RM> the ordinary people down there. Thousands of American products   
   RM> have been removed from the store shelves here and a lot of people   
   RM> refuse to buy the ones that are still left.   
      
   AT>I don't understand why they would act that way. I don't think anyone here   
     >is refusing to buy Canadian stuff.   
      
   We are looking at this as an threatened economic attack that will   
   cost us over a million jobs and raise the prices on much that we   
   buy when we are already fighting inflation moving prices up faster   
   than wages have been moving.   
      
   AT>I know for a fact that I'm buying Canadian electric   
     > every month. Some people get way too stirred-up from things they've seen or   
     >rd on TV. All the "problems" with Trump's tariffs are still just predictions   
     > far as I can see.)   
      
   And Trump plans to put a 10% tariff on electricity and oil so you can   
   count on your power bills and gasoline bills going up fairly soon   
   unless he backs off.   
      
   And those are HIS tariffs.. If they go through, there's a good chance   
   we will add another 25% Tariff on the electricity going down there.   
      
   We have already added tariffs to over $30 Billion of products we sell   
   down there in retaliation to the few traiffs Trump has already started   
   going, and there's another $95 Billion or so of prducts we will be   
   adding more tariffs to if he adds more.   
      
   A 25% tariff on $125 Billion in products is close to $100 in extra   
   cost for every person in your country, so $300 or $500 for many   
   families, and that's just from our response. Trumps tariffs will   
   add more than that on top of it as well.   
      
   Today he said he has decided to temporarily give the big auto makers   
   down there a break on tariffs, likely because they were freaking out   
   because the cost of cars there was about to go up roughly $6,000 for   
   regular type cars and as much as $20,000 on more expensive vehicles.   
   And again, this was just from HIS tariffs. We would probably add more   
   on top of that to fight back.   
      
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