Countries charge U.S. companies taxes or tariffs while the U.S. charges them nothing or little.We should charge them SAME as they charge us!— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) February 4, 2017
As Walter Block has put it, just because someone shoots a hole in your row boat doesn't mean you should shoot a second hole.
All that tariffs imposed by the U.S. will do is raise prices and shrink supply for Americans.
-RW
Sounds like an argument my 6-year-old would make.
ReplyDeleteWell, El Trumpo speaks like a 6-year-old, so it is only fitting his economic arguments are no more sophisticated than that.
DeleteFurrinurs pay high taxes. We should pay high taxes, too, or it isn't fair!
ReplyDeleteYou should count the many times Trumpistas argue on Facebook, be it in the FEE page or CATO or The Independent Institute, that trade only makes sense when the 'playing field is level'. Of course they're not talking about trade but about subsidizing local or nationally-based Buggy Whip manufacturers and the mythical "American Worker®" whose job must be saved for the sake of national greatness.
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