re: Tariffs are bad

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This thread is the bat signal for I B Freeman.

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He must own a Mardi Gras bead shop.

That's fair. I was responding more broadly to their overall tariff differences, but yeah, the world security situation seem to have changed his position on those particular tariffs. There's still a huge difference between them on tariffs.

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Tariffs are bad. How about you? Good?

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Things worse than tariffs for consumers:
-Money printing
-Shutting down economy for a cold
-Excessive regulations
-Bureaucracy and red tape
-Illegal immigration
-Progressive income taxes
-Impeding oil production and refinery
-Lawlessness
-Lawfare against those with wrong opinions
-Government mandates


Could go on and on. Tariffs are a necessary evil because our own government has made it incredibly hard to manufacture things here.

I'm a capitalist, so I'm against Tariffs if R or D is behind them. Thomas Sowell is in my corner.

Tariffs are great if the country you are placing the tariff on taxes imports. Personally I think that the US government should do what Tom Clancy does in one of his books. Pass the Trade Reform Act from Debt of Honor which makes US laws and practices on imports of a country mirror the laws and practices of that country. That way trade is fair. I would prefer free & fair trade but I will gladly take take fair trade with extra costs instead of free trade and American industry and workers getting f**ked over without lube.

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Tariffs are bad for the consumer

Make the govt feel good about themselves.

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An objective truth.

Tariffs are when the government taxes the little guy, and tells him its for his own benefit.

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I'm a capitalist, so I'm against Tariffs if R or D is behind them. Thomas Sowell is in my corner.

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Neither you, nor Thomas Sowell have owned a business that has to compete with China and their slave labor. Cheaper prices are great and all, and I sincerely wish tariffs were not needed, but the result is the death of domestic manufacturing and industry. And while this doesn't sound catastrophic to many, you don't even have to go to war with your primary trade partner to recognize that at some point the country that manufactures most of the shite you buy, owns you.

ETA: Look at the Plandemic. China creates the virus. China supplies most of our pharmaceuticals. China's influence over our government, the pharmaceutical industry, and the medical community, results in effective medicines being banned and doctors threatened with their licenses for prescribing it. China's power and influence over our government and economy has resulted in nobody even talking about punishing China for releasing a deadly virus upon the world. China's power and influence over the pharmaceutical companies had doctors and administrators choosing the government, it's protocols, it's mandates, and it's recommended treatments, over what was best for the American people.

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Neither you, nor Thomas Sowell have owned a business that has to compete with China

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Good job supporting woke corporations, that help support immigration to fill these jobs because Americans will not work them.

All on the back of the American consumer. Sounds opposite of "American First."

Its the small business that will get squeezed, the Corporations have deep pockets.

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Take China out of the equation.

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Take the federal government out of the equation. Now put a 10% tax on everone.

Is that good for the country?

How the hell do you take a country that the federal government has allowed to destroy our manufacturing industry out of the equation? How do you allow a country with billions of people to use tariffs to prevent our products from entering their markets, while allowing them to dominate your market with inferior products and slave labor?