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From: moviePig <nobody@nowhere.com>
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Subject: Re: I Salute the Democrat Party
Date: Fri, 21 Feb 2025 15:30:18 -0500
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On 2/21/2025 1:31 PM, BTR1701 wrote:
> On Feb 20, 2025 at 10:12:12 PM PST, "Ed Stasiak"
> <user1263@newsgrouper.org.invalid> wrote:
> 
>>
>>>   BTR1701
>>>
>>>   You've become the party of big business
>>
>> Indeed.  If you listen to NPR, they pretty much daily harp on
>> the horrors of tariffs and how average working class Americans
>> are going to get raped at the grocery store, all because Trump
>> isn't letting China flood the U.S. with their products (all the
>> while China tariffs the shit out of imported American stuff).
> 
> No one has ever been able to satisfactorily explain to me why it's no big deal
> when other countries tariff us-- including our friends, like Canada-- but when
> we do it, it's an absolute horror show that will undermine the world economy
> and risk turning our allies into enemies.
> 
> Much like borders, tariffs are apparently fine for literally every other
> nation on the face of the earth except the U.S.
> 
>> https://i.postimg.cc/Vv01p4LH/temp-Imageuk9-FBr.avif
>> https://i.postimg.cc/HjGHg5rW/temp-Imagej9-Su-Zk.avif

Tariffs contravene our vaunted free-market principles.  They're a 
protectionist tool that admits our economy needs protection.

They're also a stable fact of life.  And if one intends to fuck with 
them (pursuing "reciprocity" or any other supposed ideal) it'd probably 
be best to start with a little foreplay.