Wisconsin reeling from tariffs coming from Mexico, Canada, Europe

[workinclasszero]

Rick Barrett and Craig Gilbert, Milwaukee Published 10:13 a.m. CT June 8, 2018

At a recent town hall meeting held by U.S. Rep. Jim Sensenbrenner in Hartford, a local manufacturer complained vehemently about the new steel and aluminum tariffs imposed by President Donald Trump.

“I do recognize this is probably a negotiating tactic … the administration is using, but in the meantime real families are being crushed by these tariffs right now,” said Doug Reigle of Regal Ware, a company with 200 employees in West Bend that makes cookware and small kitchen appliances.

“We ship our products all over the world — 65 percent of our revenue comes from outside the United States … and the tariffs are hitting us especially hard,” said Reigle, who said his firm has already spent about $150,000 this year to cover the tariffs.

All of Regal Ware’s aluminum comes from Canada.

“We can’t even buy it in the United States,” Reigle said. “Our competitors, which come from all over the world, aren’t subject to these tariffs. … So I’m now at a 25 percent disadvantage immediately on all those products.”

https://www.jsonline.com/story/money/business/2018/06/08/tariffs-take-toll-wisconsin-manufacturers/682029002/

[Mean Gene]

1. So Sad...Tired of all this winning. n/t

[3Hotdogs]

2. I feel sorry for the ones who didn't vote for the orange shit-stain.

Still, this is the state that elected Scott Walker. On top of that, they were dumb enough to fall for Koch Brothers' adds telling them that recall wasn't a solution to their problems.

[Submariner]

3. Thoughts and Prayers, and above all, Be Best

you idiot Trumptards.

[bucolic_frolic]

4. Go eat a bowl of Wisconsin Cheese and Trumpolini

and shut your stupid fat piehole

[Heartstrings]

5. I can assure you

we all aren’t “dumb”, yet continuously get lumped into that equation by many here on du. I’ve even read that we “deserve” what we get. We are battling not only gerrymandering, but a heavy Koch Bros presence. So, please, if you don’t have anything constructive to point out to us, just don’t comment. We already know the obvious....

Thanks, a proud Wisconsinite....

[pazzyanne]

6. Thank you for standing up to the negative posts.

It is so easy to sit in your living room and judge others. It damages the people who are fighting the good fight when they are put into the generalized population of trumpers. Nothing makes me more angry than having a "friend" who places me along with my trumper family members. Stop it!

A Minnesota neighbor

[DownriverDem]

9. Maybe

It's out of frustration and fear for what is going on. Also we can't help but wonder who folks hurting voted for.

[jodymarie aimee]

18. "Also we can't help but wonder who folks hurting voted for"???

How's about wondering about the 49% of folks who DID NOT VOTE. WI and the other 2 states and the poor get blamed for Trump. Who do you think the rich guys voted for? And the freaky abortion folks?

For the millionth time, we were the petri dish. We in WI have been in hell for the last 8 years. The entire country is now going thru what we have lived for a decade. I am sorry you are angry...but direct it elsewhere and use that anger in a constructive way.

[KY_EnviroGuy]

10. Love Wisconsin supper clubs and the craftsmen there.

And since retirement, I miss going there on service jobs. I worked with many very sharp people there in several plants. Usually returned home with all extra luggage space packed with cheese, LOL.

I'm confident Wisconsin will recover from this rightward tilt in time......... .......

[Pepsidog]

12. Comments are obviously not meant for Wisconsin Dems. It's just venting.. don't take personally

[gibraltar72]

17. We all bear the blame. Some more than others.

[LakeArenal]

20. Folks seem as well to forget....

This state is 47% 47%. In elections we fight for 3% to vote for Dems. When there’s millions of dollars of Koch money, millions in NRA money and gerrymandering fighting Dems for that 3%, we get licked.

So I will never let anyone say Wisconsin doesn’t fight hard enough. The people do anyway.

[ladym55]

23. You also experienced big-time voter suppression

I think it is Ari Melber who has studied what happened in Wisconsin in 2016. I think Wisconsin had more than 200,000 voters deemed ineligible with the various requirements the Rethugs put in place.

[LakeArenal]

24. Thank you and Ari. 😊

[jodymarie aimee]

26. wrong Ari

Berman

[ladym55]

30. Oops!

Thank you!

[Kajun Gal]

27. Y'all bought the snake oil. Sorry.

[Heartstrings]

28. Really? "Y'all" connotates every single person....

This is exactly the type of negativity we Dems in WI do not need.....thanks for your support! No, sorry doesn't cut it....

[LakeArenal]

29. You are pretty sorry. Sorry indeed!

[33taw]

7. West Bend is in one of the most solid red counties in the country.

Growing up there, I know they won’t change how they vote.

[Liberalhammer]

21. So is Waukesha county

White flight racists.

[33taw]

22. Yep, one of the WOW counties. Washington County is not nearly as gerrymandered as Waukesha.

[dembotoz]

31. would disagree. if you add ozaukee county, wash oz is one stupid bucket of poop

look at the assembly districts....how do they make sense.

[33taw]

32. They don't. But, Washington County has voted republican since the early 1900's.

It has always been 70% republican no matter how you slice it. Waukesha County is hacked up all over the place.

[rpannier]

8. I do recognize this is probably a negotiating tactic...

No it's not
You're an idiot
Too bad, so sad
Thoughts and prayers

[ChiTownDenny]

14. + 1

and, Be Best.

Yeah, "negotiating tactic" stuck out to me as well. "I'm going to create harm and damage to myself unless you re-negotiate with me! That'll show you!"

[dlk]

11. MAGA in Action...

This is what the real Republican agenda looks like.

[world wide wally]

13. Rule #1

If it ain't broke, don't fix it.

unless of course, your supreme leader says to

[Fred Sanders]

15. US gets 9 billion dollars of aluminum per year from Canada, 40% of all imports of the metal.

How long for the dormant American industry to build smelters and start exploring for domestic aluminum since there isn't near enough anyway.

The stupidity of the "logic" knows no bounds.

[rpannier]

16. This is all I needed to know to recognize this guy (interviewee) is a fool

I do recognize this is probably a negotiating tactic...

[33taw]

19. Many voters in this area will defend him if he shoots their mother.

[rpannier]

25. Many would defend him if he shot them

trump brownshirt, "I realize the president was riding down the street, drunk, firing a machine gun wildly. But, if I hadn't been mowing my lawn I'd never have been shot. So it's really my fault."