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Post by Don on Mar 7, 2019 11:18:04 GMT -5
Tariffs are one of those economic cases of "settled science" that true believers tend to ignore when it clashes with their ideology. See also: minimum wage laws.
I strongly recommend looking at economics from an economic perspective, rather than "from a libertarian, liberal, or "real" conservative (as opposed to Trumpian populist "conservative") perspective." All those ideologies are willing to ignore settled science when it suits them.
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Post by Don on Mar 21, 2019 10:34:23 GMT -5
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Post by markesq on Mar 21, 2019 10:59:16 GMT -5
Excellent. That's one.
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Post by Don on Mar 25, 2019 18:43:17 GMT -5
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Post by Deleted on Mar 25, 2019 18:44:35 GMT -5
Speaking of things candidates should run with in 2020...
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Post by Don on Mar 25, 2019 18:51:01 GMT -5
Yep. "Read my lips" sunk GHWB's ship.
As long as we're fighting the world's wars, talk of a balanced budget is empty air.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 25, 2019 19:00:21 GMT -5
We can come a shitload closer than we are at present. At the very least, if we're going to explode the budget, I'd rather see it done for stuff that will benefit regular people, not billionaires and corporations.
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Post by Don on Mar 25, 2019 19:08:46 GMT -5
1. ) Ordinary people can't afford the politicians they'd have to buy to make that happen. 2. ) There is no possible way to explode the budget that would benefit ordinary people. Inflation always, without exception, falls heaviest on the middle and lower classes. Short-term gains are always devoured in the long run. Politics runs on concentrated benefits, dispersed costs.
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