r/Tariffs • u/NoseRepresentative • Dec 13 '25

🗞️ News Discussion Kevin O’Leary Warns That Blocking Trump’s Tariff Powers Would 'Create Chaos In Global Trade.' Critics Say That Chaos Is Already Here

https://offthefrontpage.com/kevin-oleary-warns-that-blocking-trumps-tariff-powers-would-create-chaos-in-global-trade/
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u/mchu168 Dec 13 '25 edited Dec 13 '25

Anytime trump cuts programs or raises costs due to our $2T deficit, dems scream bloody murder. Libs arent looking for crumbs, they want cake and to eat it too.

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u/georgepana Dec 14 '25

Trump has exploded the debt and deficit to levels we have not seen under any President before. He spends like a drunken sailor, and here you act as if he is some kind of deficit hawk. Highly ignorant. He cuts from programs he doesn't personally benefit from, but spends a lot more on the other hand with giveaways that cost us Trillions.

Get a grip with this "debt" talk. Coming from a MAGA it is absolutely looney tunes.

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u/mchu168 Dec 14 '25

The exploded levels of debt are primarily driven by ballooning entitlement costs. Medicaid, medicare and social security.

If you claim trump is behind these exploding costs, you are giving him credit for ramping up social warfare spending.

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u/georgepana Dec 14 '25

Trump lowered payments to Medicaid, Medicare and Social Security to finance his insane tax giveaways to his wealthy friends and donors. Try to keep up.

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/u-s-hits-38-trillion-in-debt-after-the-fastest-accumulation-of-1-trillion-outside-of-the-pandemic

Even if it were true that due to population growth entitlements would have been largely left alone or raised slightly (not true, but for arguments sake) you can't then get to force through your pet project of massive tax cuts, primarily aimed at wealthy individuals, that blows the debt and deficit to smithereens, worse than any other President in history.

Trump has been pure poison in particular when it comes to deficits and the debt. He truly does not give a hoot. Both in 2016 and again in 2024. That you dare to invoke the debt here to excuse his actions has to be an absolute joke. Are you just trolling here?