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From: Eli the Bearded <*@eli.users.panix.com>
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Subject: Re: Tariffs are a tax cut
Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2025 05:17:59 -0000 (UTC)
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In misc.news.internet.discuss, JAB  <here@is.invalid> wrote:
> "Tariffs are a tax cut for the American people" -- Karoline Leavitt
> turns reality upside down, then gets mad at an AP reporter after he
> pushes back
> 
> Video: 1:13 minute
> 
> https://bsky.app/profile/atrupar.com/post/3lk4n3ltaus2y

https://people.com/ferris-bueller-clip-goes-viral-amid-trump-tariff-war-11691497
   Ferris Bueller Clip Goes Viral amid Trump's Tariff War for Its
   Painfully Simple Economy Lesson

   "Ferris Bueller is strikingly more instructive than 99.99% of
   political commentators on tariffs," wrote one economics professor as
   Donald Trump's controversial tariffs take effect

    A scene from John Hughes' classic 1986 teen comedy movie Ferris
    Bueller's Day Off is going viral amid Donald Trump's tariff war.

    The scene shows a high school economics teacher talking to his
    uninterested students about the Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act, a real-life
    bill signed by President Herbert Hoover in 1930 that increased
    tariffs on imported goods. The law, which is being compared to
    Trump's recent actions, is often credited for worsening the Great
    Depression. 

    The movie character, portrayed by Ben Stein, says while teaching a
    lesson to his class, "In 1930, the Republican-controlled House of
    Representatives, in an effort to alleviate the effects of the...
    Anyone? Anyone?" When he gets no reply, he answers his question
    himself: "Great Depression."

The full scene:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uhiCFdWeQfA

Ben Stein's father worked as an economist in the Republican-controlled
Nixon (White) House. Bill Stein worked as a speechwriter for Nixon.

Elijah
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Trump is too old to be likely to have watched Ferris Bueller