Re: I Salute the Democrat Party

On 2/21/2025 1:31 PM, BTR1701 wrote:

On Feb 20, 2025 at 10:12:12 PM PST, "Ed Stasiak"
<user1263@newsgrouper.org.invalid> wrote:
 

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  BTR1701
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  You've become the party of big business

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Indeed.  If you listen to NPR, they pretty much daily harp on
the horrors of tariffs and how average working class Americans
are going to get raped at the grocery store, all because Trump
isn't letting China flood the U.S. with their products (all the
while China tariffs the shit out of imported American stuff).

 No one has ever been able to satisfactorily explain to me why it's no big deal
when other countries tariff us-- including our friends, like Canada-- but when
we do it, it's an absolute horror show that will undermine the world economy
and risk turning our allies into enemies.
 Much like borders, tariffs are apparently fine for literally every other
nation on the face of the earth except the U.S.
 

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Tariffs contravene our vaunted free-market principles.  They're a protectionist tool that admits our economy needs protection.
They're also a stable fact of life.  And if one intends to fuck with them (pursuing "reciprocity" or any other supposed ideal) it'd probably be best to start with a little foreplay.