Summary
Trump warned automakers not to raise prices after announcing a 25% tariff on imported vehicles starting April 3, claiming the tariffs would be “great” and benefit U.S. manufacturing.
Industry leaders, including GM, Ford, and Stellantis CEOs, expressed concerns about inevitable price increases, with experts warning tariffs could add thousands to car costs.
Auto suppliers stated that absorbing tariffs is impossible, and dealers fear affordability challenges for consumers.
While the United Auto Workers union support the move as a job creator, trade groups predict higher prices and fewer manufacturing jobs.
I mean, socialism is a spectrum. If all you need is “big publicly funded health care system” then the US qualifies via Medicare/Medicaid/VA.
But “why do all socialist countries fail?” might better be answered by the question “why do all socialist countries keep getting invaded?”
From the Bay of Pigs to Operation Condor to the decades long occupations of Vietnam, Korea, the Philippines, and Indonesia… And it’s not just the US. The Germans couldn’t resist charging headlong into Soviet Russia. The French won’t stop repeatedly bombing and sending ground troops into North Africa. Practically every neighbor of Venezuela has sent troops across the border since the Chavez Revolution. Even the UK couldn’t help itself in their Falklands War.
Just about the only thing that deters some kind of invasion by a hostile neighbor is nuclear weapons. That’s kept China and Russia largely insulated even after the end of he USSR. But even nukes couldn’t deter the occasional feint across the border from an overly zealous Indian Hinduvista or Ukrainian ultra-nationalist.
Socialist countries are simply too punchable.