re: Rand Paul says he helped gather votes with Dems to stop Trump tariffs

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So you take someone replying as actually listening to you?

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Nah. I realize you've given up trying to argue your point.

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You are clearly from China.

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Your buddy says I've never been there, nor Singapore.

It's hard for me to keep up with all the fake projection in y'all heads.

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Trump will make our national debt so much worse.

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It's quite likely that our debt will get worse under Trump. His attempts to cut spending have been blocked at every turn by the courts. His attempts to rectify 4 years of costly illegal immigration have also been blocked by the courts. Interest expense is a massive and growing line item. The dollar is at risk. The congress seems disinclined to cut spending. The left and the right have their favorite wars queud up on the agenda.

If Trump can't cut govt spending, then debt/GDP will most likely continue to rise rapidly, like it has for the last 30 years. We can't outgrow these debts. They're too big now.

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Worrying about trade deficits is nonsesne.

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No, it's not. Our twin deficits, budget and trade, are an ongoing and increasing threat to the US dollar. Our foreign dependence is a threat to US sovereignty. Despite the consistent ignorance about this topic here, trade deficits and budget deficits are related and when run in tandem for 50 years, and growing larger faster, like we've done and are doing, they can destroy even a global reserve currency.

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I am happy to get a better value for my money, which allows me to increase my personal wealth. Your nationalism is bleeing into socialism. You are restricting free trade. You aren't a capitalist.

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If you live in the US, your happiness will be short lived because we've been on a destructive course for a long time and the accumulated damage is extreme. But I did get a laugh out of the last part; opposing unfair/damaging/manipulated trade with a marxist autocratic adversarial state means I'm not a capitalist. That almost seems like intentional projection on your part.