They create a system which seeks to circumvent them
Any tax or penalty creates an incentive to not pay it. I asked and am asking again: do you think tariffs are impossible to enforce?
tariffs are a sledgehammer. they're good for some things but not for everything.
I disagree. Tariffs should be the default between nations.
not sure if you are disagreeing here.
I was agreeing. No sarcasm was intended. Foreign citizens should not be able to own land (I would include other things also).
It used to be that we would use a the Sherman antitrust act to break up monopolies whenever they got too big and prevented innovation. we did this to standard oil. we did this to Bell telephone. we tried to do this to Microsoft and failed. right now you have four companies essentially that control the entire internet that should not exist. don't get me started on patents because I believe that Congress needs to pass a law to stop and reverse the damage that Disney has done. however, I don't see the Democrats talking about this and I don't see Trump talking about this.
Relying upon somebody like ol' trust bustin' Teddy Roosevelt is not a sustainable system. I wouldn't shed a tear if Trump started bustin'.
Disney was instrumental in extending copyrights Thankfully they didn't get another extention and Steamboat Willie is now in the Public Domain. Patents are what Big Pharma and Big Ag use to monopolies food and medicine. Planned Obsolescence (products breaking prematurely) also depends on patents, because otherwise competitors would tweek the design to not break and convert customers.
well that's just capitalism. but I believe in kanisan economics. under a capitalistic system, the government should ensure free trade exists. however, every time we have these regulatory barriers in place, the Republican party keeps removing them because they keep siding with business.
Artificial government granted monopolies are not "just capitalism". I am not Keynesian. Truely "free trade" is a libertarian flavored mythology.
remember our media was prevented by regulation to be consolidated. Reagan removed that, and now all our media is owned by three companies.
Media monopolies depend on the government granted artificial monopoly of copyright. Also, the illusion that the news used to be more truthful because it was less consolidated isn't true. Walter Cronkite was a mouthpiece of the establishment. The customers for news are advertisers and propogandists and the news agencies act as their lackies.
Ending fractional banking would be a very dramatic change. It would end modern banking as we know it. I think modern banking should end, because it is a usurious plague orchestrated by criminals. Somewhat off topic for this thread.
Trump has some kind of plans for banking, but I don't fully know yet.
but that would require Congress to do its job
Congress deligated tariff powers to the executive. Trump should absolutely use that power to set things right. If the MAGA movement continues, then MAGA Congress can make more permanent changes.
it's hard to establish a business when you don't know within 4 years if some regulatory reaction will exist or won't, especially when it comes to Major regulations.
Green New Deal, Pandemic lockdowns, DEI, etc, etc.
I will happily take Trump. Build America for America. If some dickhead comes in and undoes that, then fight back like your life depends on it.
The entire US immigration system needs to be burned down and rebuilt. we have two few judges too for you enforcers the laws are just taped together and they don't make any sense in the modern day. I'm not against deporting illegals I'm not against having immigration laws. I actually support them. I just think we need to completely change everything.
You just said you wanted companies to be punished for hiring illegals. I pointed out it is already against the law to hire illegels. Now you throw your hands up and act like the whole things is "just too much".
Bullshit. Too fee judges, bullshit. Laws "don't make any sense", bullshit.
If the will of the people, and the will of their leader wanted to, shit would get done
FAST. You can see that with Trump2.0.
We don't have to fuck around waiting and waiting for Congress. We don't have to get flabbergasted and whine that the immigration system is too disorganized. Bunch of do-nothing doomer cope and sneed.
