“We can huff and puff and beat our patriotic chests, but at the end of the day, tariffs are taxes, and just like other business taxes, they contribute to a lowering of GDP.”
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Actually China, and even most of our so-called trading “partners” all have (far) more tariffs and trade barriers than we do.
Seems to be working for them, actually.
Perhaps it is our approach, which is fundamentally flawed.
Perhaps selling our jobs and technology blindly, to nations which very methodically advance their own countries strategically by taking advantage of that, is naive.
Dumb even.
Maybe everyone here actually knows that, but what's not well understood is how really bad all this tax'n'spending is for America.