Sculptus Poe

Really, there is only two good reasons to make tariffs. One is to increase the price of goods coming from outside of the country vs the price of goods made in the country. Americans paying more is a feature. This, of course, makes us mad when we pay for those more expensive things and makes us more likely to buy the things made in America. This anger isn’t politically expedient, so the Trumper lies to make it seem like there will be no change and that gets to be the big news item.

The second reason for tariffs is to make American goods cheaper in other countries. Ideally If he sets the tariffs to automatically match the tariffs other countries have on imports of American goods, those countries will adjust their tariffs down to make their goods sell better in America. Then, supposing that happens, American goods would be more competitive in those markets.

In theory all that is pretty fair… especially if the tariffs are exactly matching the other country’s tariffs.

Arbitrary or punitive tariffs are counter-productive to both of those items.

Unfortunately, it seems like this basic theory is as far as anybody is planning. Also, Trump is loud and obnoxious about everything that is done.

The biggest obvious problem is that the US doesn’t have the manufacturing capabilities anymore, so disrupting the trade hurts American companies designed around getting their manufacturing done outside of the country.

People’s wages and living expenses are planned around cheap imports, this puts a strain on the lowest paid people in our country.

Really, if the tariffs ‘work out’ then it is a good thing, but they definitely seem to be ham-fisting it.

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Well, I already changed it anyway. Not a bad thing to do I guess.

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Well, you are trying embarrassingly hard to silence me at least. That is fine. I was definitely positing an unlikely but possible case, I do suffer from extreme anxiety and what sets it off has nothing to do with logic, but you are also overstating the ethics violation by suggesting that any harm they could cause is real or significant in a way that wouldn’t happen with regular interaction on random forums.

In that case, any interaction would be unethical. How do you know that I don’t have an intense fear of the words “justify the means”? You could have just doomed me to a downward spiral ending in my demise. As if I didn’t have enough trouble. You not only made me see it, you tricked me into typing it.

Well, I carry a keyboard with my 17" laptop. Carrying a keyboard with a 8" laptop is that much easier.

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Not when disclosure ruins the experiment. Nobody was harmed or even could be harmed unless they are dead stupid, in which case the harm is already inevitable. This was posting on social media, not injecting people with random pathogens. Have a little perspective.

What a bunch of fear mongering, anti science idiots.

Wish HST was here for the commentary.

The answer is never censorship. Look at who would be in charge of your ‘regulated’ social media now… It would be all of it instead of just the now hyper-regulated X.