Re: I Salute the Democrat Party

On Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:44:04 -0800, shawn wrote:

On Fri, 21 Feb 2025 18:31:46 -0000 (UTC), BTR1701<atropos@mac.com>
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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).

NPR says nothing different than any other station, all
Free Trade, all the time. Not an alternative news source.

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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.

Targeted tariffs make sense to me. Blanket tariffs on nations don't
make much sense to me. If we had a particular industry we wanted to
help, like the EV car industry then we might introduce tariffs on EVs
from China. If Canada introduced an across the board tariff on US
goods then I would have no issue if we did something similar to them,
but as far as I know that isn't what Canada or Mexico did to the USA.

Are you equating tariffs with Trump? That's what the media
does, but the monopoly media dumbs down every issue.

What if someone identifies as a supporter of the tariff
concept but doesn't like Trump? These are easy to
find on the left and right, just never in the media, which
has violently condemned opposition to Free Trade for
generations.

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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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AS for the trade deficit blame our industries for going for the lowest
cost of goods which has been China for years.

Actually, blame the political decision to enforce free trade, as
well as the monopolization of industry and commerce, preventing
competition.

Though I question the "trade deficit" concept.

Though lately many
companies are moving their production from China to other countries.

Which is probably a political decision just like it was
a political decision to "award" China with a "most favored
nation" designation.