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Should be a wild four years.

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Wait a minute. What happened to all those annoying Zoomer chicks screaming at the press "Bye! Bye! Thank you! Let's go! Bye! Fuck off! No questions! Bye! Eat a bag of dicks! Let's go! Out!" preventing Trump from talking to reporters?

I heard that for four years. I'm confused.
 
Afaik Adam Smith was not some libertarian economist
He absolutely wasn't. Wealth of Nations is just as much a moralist text as it is an economic one. The two were intertwined with each other in his philosophical outlook. Smith would look at savings and profits from free trade and say that they should be invested in national industries and civic institutions. If you told him that the savings from global free trade mean you can buy three funko pops instead of one, or that the profits from outsourcing industry to slaves in China mean you can operate a private reserve in Hawaii for your leisure, he'd have you whipped in church.
 
It's so strange to see our President actually acting...presidential, I know right? If he keeps this energy up for this entire term, we might actually get our country back on track.
I'm glad he's BTFO all these irrelevant third world countries.
"They need us more than we need them". Damn straight, people forget that.
>How many conferences like this has Biden done
>Zero

Stop, he's already dead!
 
If another country can produce goods for cheaper by paying their labor absolute bottom tier wages, then the consumer country must act in its own self-interest and protect its own workforce.
Maybe I'm retarded but I don't see where the problem is here.
Oh, my neighbor is working himself to death in order to make cheap and affordable stuff for me, I must impose sanctions on myself because... huh?
If another country pays bottom tier wages, then sit back and enjoy cheap products. Or do you believe you have some sort of ethical and moral theory according to which
a) paying absolute bottom tier wages is unacceptable
b) using force to rectify a) is acceptable
?
People are not just empty consumers, they need jobs to consume in the first place. More production = more jobs.
I have asked this in another post, but is the USA in a situation in which there is a big number of American workers who are unable to find jobs?
Additionally, this doesn't cover the nature of strategic industries, i.e. metal working or ship-building. The loses a strategic advantage against its enemies in Russia or China if it loses its ability to staff and develop strategic industries just because some 3rd world wagies will do it for cheaper oceans away.
If the goal is encouraging those industries to be available domestically, then wouldn't it be much more prudent, efficient, and effective to, say, remove barriers preventing people from starting or continuing these industries domestically? Such as taxes, fees, levies, licenses, patents, all sorts of red tape? Like, get rid of those? Rather than some tariff for some other industries?
 
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Seriously why would the adl who recognizes the ok handsign as a nazi "dogwhistle" try and defend a roman salute, these people are retarded
I think they also feel which way the wind is blowing and like the sniveling worms they are groveling. Make no mistake were this 6 months ago or had kamala won they would be all over this calling elon a nazi. They're still evil they just don't think they can get away with it right now.
 
Maybe I'm misinterpreting this out of tiredness, but
If a foreign producer can manufacture AND SHIP something for $8 to the USA, and the same something could be produced in the USA for $10, as an earlier poster gave an example for, how exactly does the USA imposing a tariff on the foreign producer of that something make the USA more competitive in the global market to the benefit of the US?
Like, maybe I'm not seeing something you are, but that first sentence is just plainly insane to me.

"Encourage domestic trade and business to strengthen domestic economy."
This here contains multiple unrelated claims and logic.
As in, "tariffs encourage domestic trade", "tariffs encourage domestic business", "tariffs strengthen domestic economy".
None of these are true. Or can you logically explain how exactly?
Because they don't want to pay the tarrif. Either build in house or pay the toll to get your cost efficiency of literal slave labor equalized.
 
found a reaction to the pardons
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"We are all in terrible danger."

Yes, for cruelly and unjustly keeping 1,500 people hostage and refusing them the right to a speedy trial.

Not to mention, cheering that on while ALSO peddling lies about the event that was keeping them in prison.

Enjoy anxiety, retard children.
 
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If a foreign producer can manufacture AND SHIP something for $8 to the USA, and the same something could be produced in the USA for $10, as an earlier poster gave an example for, how exactly does the USA imposing a tariff on the foreign producer of that something make the USA more competitive in the global market to the benefit of the US?
The tariff could increase the price of the imported product to say $10, even $12. When you buy American, that profit could potentially come back to the host country. Even better, the "cheaper" option would be of the same quality or LESS than when you buy domestically. You wouldn't issue tariffs on everything (clothing, fashion), just towards industries that COULD be competitive that can be done domestically.

Example: auto industry. All these foreign brands could develop manufacturing jobs to make cars at a cheaper price, which can stimulate our American economy and the consumer.
 
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