tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3758330678390419129.post6723496513377401083..comments2024-02-13T02:39:22.756-05:00Comments on EconomicPolicyJournal.com: China Says the United States Has Begun the 'Biggest Trade War' in HistoryRobert Wenzelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14296920597416905488noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3758330678390419129.post-41375849620657007232018-07-07T07:12:11.643-04:002018-07-07T07:12:11.643-04:00I’m going to enact a tariff on any goods imported ...I’m going to enact a tariff on any goods imported into my household from my grocer from now on, and make my kids and wife pay extra. After all, there’s this galling trade imbalance between us: I’ve noticed that in the last 10 years or so, I’ve bought WAAAY more from Kroger than they ever bought from me---I’m being taken advantage of, to the tune of about a $50,000 trade-imbalance! Unfair tradeAnonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08236071066075535008noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3758330678390419129.post-69092761789273881402018-07-06T18:27:09.521-04:002018-07-06T18:27:09.521-04:00Wasn't the first shot the various tariffs and ...Wasn't the first shot the various tariffs and other restrictions China has been allowed to maintain? It was those which inspired the ignoramus Trump down this path with such a hamfisted approach. Had China removed those in the last 20 years Trump wouldn't have much to complain about. Of course using tariffs now to encourage China to drop theirs is several decades too late now. <br /><br />Jimmy Joe Meekerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09559104650594440766noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3758330678390419129.post-57269728830158455192018-07-06T07:30:29.684-04:002018-07-06T07:30:29.684-04:00“...blockading squadrons are a means whereby natio...“...blockading squadrons are a means whereby nations seek to prevent their enemies from trading; protective tariffs are a means whereby nations attempt to prevent their own people from trading. What protection teaches us, is to do to ourselves in time of peace what enemies seek to do to us in time of war." ---Henry George, 1886Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08236071066075535008noreply@blogger.com