Source: The American Prospect
by David Dayen
“Earlier this week, I jumped on a Harris campaign call featuring Mark Cuban, the entrepreneur and minority owner of the Dallas Mavericks. James Curbeam, the Teamsters National Black Caucus chair, was on there as well, but Cuban dominated the call. The idea was to push back on Donald Trump’s economic ideas in advance of Harris’s broader rollout. Cuban brought up two examples. First, he objected to Trump’s call to slap a 200 percent tariff on John Deere if the company moved to Mexico. It wasn’t because that would be impossible given the U.S.-Mexico-Canada free-trade agreement that Trump signed into law …. The worst part of it, Cuban insisted, is that putting a bigger tariff on Mexican-made John Deere products than on Chinese farm equipment manufacturers would ‘[make] it cheaper for Chinese manufacturers to compete with John Deere …'” (09/27/24)
https://prospect.org/politics/2024-09-27-not-enjoying-mark-cuban-for-president-campaign/