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>>herber+(OP)
Dems just need to spin these tariffs as the largest tax increase in US history (which is basically correct).

>>sender+w6
It's also a tax on everyone, to the benefit of large corporations which can now increase prices / decrease value), due to less competition.

>>mmooss+D9
Which is one of the reasons the countries with high tariffs have had worse economy overall and specifically much worse than the US economy. The higher your tariffs the worse the protected industry and the whole economy.

>>trhway+bh
Yes - with free trade, the US is the wealthiest economy in the history of the world. Economic research says it works. What is the reasoning for throwing it away?

I hear the nonsense reasoning from the Trump crowd, but many know it's nonsense even as they say it. What is their real goal here?

>>mmooss+yn
I wish I knew. Nothing I hear from that crowd makes any actual sense except one thing: they have developed such a seething hatred for more than half of their fellow citizenry that they're willing to destroy the entire country, including themselves, just to hurt them.

But that also makes no real sense. So I don't know.

>>JohnFe+yu
> they have developed such a seething hatred for more than half of their fellow citizenry that they're willing to destroy the entire country, including themselves, just to hurt them.

That is the people following (speaking very generally). The leaders are leading people in that direction for a reason.

>>mmooss+rw
Yeah, I agree. But what is that reason?

>>JohnFe+sz
I'm not sure I buy it, but this is one theory:

https://bsky.app/profile/chrismurphyct.bsky.social/post/3llu...

>>sender+MF
Seems reasonable to me. He'll pick and choose who to give relief to depending on how they bend the knee. It's still going to crash the economy and ruin the country though. In sane times, congress could take the toys away from the executive branch which is obviously abusing its powers. However, we're not in sane times.

>>spacem+7S
Congress would need a vet-proof majority to take the toys away now, which is essentially impossible in modern times. The only way this can be resolved in is if SCOTUS rules that the executive does not have the power to tariff like this, and Trump actually stops rather than just ignoring the court order.