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Should be a wild four years.

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I hope the Jan 6ers go ahead and tell everyone about the conditions they were kept in. Even if the mainstream media ignores it, it will really show how vindictive and evil the Federal government can and will be to a whole new generation that wasn't alive for Waco and Ruby Ridge.
 
Oh, my neighbor is working myself 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
?
Define neighbor. You mean somebody from a different country where their cost of living is significantly less than yours? Okay, somebody takes your neighbor's work and sells it for triple the cost to you while you're making them richer. Cost is relative; it's "cheap" to buy, but you're paying for it one way or another yet they have the nerve to sell to you but not contributing to your country's welfare.
 
He was sentenced to 252 months for civil rights violations and is in BOP custody in Texas. I think there were some tax charges, too, but they might have been dropped. If he was pardoned on the Federal conviction, he'd be released from BOP custody and sent to the Minneapolis prison system, which is probably worse than where he is now.
Pardoning Chauvin would produce a new energy source Elon could use to go to Mars. Made from the collective asshurt of every liberal, black bloc fag, tranny and democrat. I would call it soyainum.
Fucking DO IT Trump.
 
That was great, but you're not going to top calling the pope "the famous African American baseball player in America" or calling Zelensky Putin
My favorite biden moment was "The Thing". To this day, nobody truly knows what "The Thing" actually is. The black man behind him doing the "Ah sheeeiit nigga" headshake is just *chef's kiss*

 
He founded the Silk Road. Since people were selling illegal shit on there he got nailed for running a criminal enterprise and got life in prison.
If that's the case, why should he be let out? And what was even selling that was illegal? Crack? Fent?
 
He's just straight up shitting on Biden and friends, openly talking about them being corrupt to the cameras.
Man, I missed this shit. Don't you just love it when the big villain of the week gets relegated to a comedy relief character then fucks off from the show entirely?
>Withdrawing from WHO
Good, keep em coming.
 
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?
The problem I think you are having is that your example is a static Ricardian example, trade factor endowments are fixed and so, in this circumstance, obviously it is better to get the $8 good over the $10 good. The problem is that the world does not run on unchanging conditions, the point of tariffs is that circumstances reinforce existing imbalances. If a country such as China, due to massive capital investment into the economy, manages to produce much cheaper goods due to the investment dramatically increasing its factor production, in free trade this would have knock on effects, notably in terms of magnifying over time the differences in productively, and in terms of wage rates, this was the whole point of Heckscher–Ohlin.

Empirically, the effect of protectionism has been borne out in the United States, which achieved its greatest period of economic growth in the 19th and early 20th century during its most protectionist era. If you contrast it with the UK, when it was losing its position as the pre-eminent industrial power, particularly due to innovations such as Krupp in Germany with steel, it simply continued the course of free trade, and its hold over world industrial capacity dramatically diminished in favor of the US and Germany.
 
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