Trump's Economic Plan

[Fife]

Deal with it.

Libertarians are out.

Whether it's "in" or "out," protectionism only protects the 1%ers. Joe Sixpack best get ready for yet another reaming up the arsehole.

But hey, we'll get to "educate" yet another generation only suited to max out doing Chinese and Mexican jobs, and to be mindless serfs, so that we can all have state subsidized $3,000 smartphones.

Bigly.

[StCapps]

Deal with it.

Libertarians are out.

Whether it's "in" or "out," protectionism only protects the 1%ers. Joe Sixpack best get ready for yet another reaming up the arsehole.

But hey, we'll get to "educate" yet another generation only suited to max out doing Chinese and Mexican jobs, and to be mindless serfs, so that we can all have state subsidized $3,000 smartphones.

Bigly.

The tariffs are a bluff to help keep more jobs in America. You'll see, it's an aggressive opening offer, not a hard policy stance.

[Speaker to Animals]

Deal with it.

Libertarians are out.

Whether it's "in" or "out," protectionism only protects the 1%ers. Joe Sixpack best get ready for yet another reaming up the arsehole.

But hey, we'll get to "educate" yet another generation only suited to max out doing Chinese and Mexican jobs, and to be mindless serfs, so that we can all have state subsidized $3,000 smartphones.

Bigly.

Yeah, we are all going to suffer really badly like we did before libertarians took over both parties and passed "free trade" deals. Shudder.

[Fife]

BUZZ. False dichotomy.

We can always examine the stellar track record of protectionism if that's the topic we are going to discuss.

https://www.cato.org/publications/comme ... -consumers


Tariffs are really dumb, unless of course, you are the politician handing out free rainbow ponies or the crony getting the lucre out of the pockets of actual working Americans. In that case they make perfect sense.

[Speaker to Animals]

BUZZ. False dichotomy.

We can always examine the stellar track record of protectionism if that's the topic we are going to discuss.

https://www.cato.org/publications/comme ... -consumers


Tariffs are really dumb, unless of course, you are the politician handing out free rainbow ponies or the crony getting the lucre out of the pockets of actual working Americans. In that case they make perfect sense.

It's not "protectionism". It's common fucking sense, Fife. We tried your shit. It decimated the middle class. You failed. We are moving on.

[Fife]

Actually, yes it is protectionism. Morally attractive, economically destructive. FWIW, I'll take it over the Billary plan we narrowly missed, given only two choices. But we're in the ruts now, because the election is over. We can just hang out and discuss the news as it comes down the pike. We have the luxury of watching a real life experiment play out in front of us. Economics, at least, is falsifiable.

For academic discussion, I'm willing to make a deal on federal finance. Let's abolish the personal income tax, the corporate tax, the IRS, and have the federal government fund itself through tariffs and import duties ONLY, and live with a balanced budget every single year. I'll make that deal.

Damn good deal.

[Speaker to Animals]

[StCapps]

The "border tax" is a bluff, Fife. Keep calm and carry on.

[Speaker to Animals]

I don't think he is bluffing, dude.

[StCapps]

I don't think he is bluffing, dude.

You'll see. Outrageous opening offer, not hard policy stance. Don't say Capps didn't tell you.