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0 pointsschmidtleonard2y ago0 comments

Yes, tariffs are especially bad if you want to get paid big bucks for the genius business plan of overseeing labor and environmental arbitrage.

The US industrialized itself with tariffs and deindustrialized itself by removing them.

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eru2y ago· 2 in thread

If restrictions to trade are so great, why do nations inevitably try to blockade each others ports in a war? Shouldn't that just help the other guy's economy prosper?

schmidtleonardOP2y ago

If a massage is so great, why not crush your torso in a hydraulic press? Shouldn't that just be a better massage?

eru2y ago

I interpret your quip as saying that you approve of carefully measured and dosed protectionism?

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