The trade wars have begun:

[Matt Collins]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GNyXf4c79Cw


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[TheTexan]

Good

 

[TheTexan]

Video basically says Trump destroyed the integrity of the WTO and now it's lost all credibility as an organization

 

[Swordsmyth]

Video basically says Trump destroyed the integrity of the WTO and now it's lost all credibility as an organization

He's also destroying NAFTA/USMCA.

Globalists (like free traders) hardest hit.


America is going to reverse its decline and the average American will benfit greatly.

 

[nobody's_hero]

Hot take:

Maybe they've been going on for a while, and it's just that no other country is used to America fighting back.

Remember folks, tariffs are only bad when we do it.

 

[Matt Collins]

He's also destroying NAFTA/USMCA.

Globalists (like free traders) hardest hit.

Free and open trade is a good thing. NAFTA and other agreements aren't free trade.

 

[TheTexan]

Free and open trade is a good thing. NAFTA and other agreements aren't free trade.

Free trade doesnt exist and cant exist until people themselves are free.

Until then, tariffs can be thought of as countermeasures to forced trade.

 

[WarriorLiberty]

tariffs will just spike the food prices in US.
No different from Biden's polices

 

[TheTexan]

tariffs will just spike the food prices in US.
No different from Biden's polices

There will be short term increases sure, but there are provably no long term price increases for any products that aren't inherently geographically differentiated (e.g. rare earth minerals).

 

[Matt Collins]

Free trade doesnt exist and cant exist until people themselves are free.

Well yeah, governments have no business telling us who we can do business with.

Until then, tariffs can be thought of as countermeasures to forced trade.

Higher taxes are never the solution to anything.

 

[acptulsa]

Higher taxes are never the solution to anything.

Toxibots who are triggered by individual freedom and autonomy find onerous taxes appealing, as they sure put a crimp on those things.

 

[TheTexan]

Well yeah, governments have no business telling us who we can do business with.

One government uses force to build factories. Another government uses force to make factories go out of business. At that point, you're already being forced into a particular trading situation.

Higher taxes are never the solution to anything.

I'd prefer an outright trade ban but a tax is preferable to doing nothing.

"More government" is not always bad. If you're in prison (which we all are), would you vote against the warden providing you with food because that would be "more government"?

Obviously the right answer is to not be in prison in the first place, but none of us are willing to make the sacrifices to make that happen.

We are wards of the state, and as such, some government, and some taxes, are necessary.

 

[TheTexan]

Toxibots who are triggered by individual freedom and autonomy find onerous taxes appealing, as they sure put a crimp on those things.

Every single one of us have made the individual decision to be a slave. That includes you.

So you can save your lectures on individual freedom.

 

[acptulsa]

Every single one of us have made the individual decision to be a slave. That includes you.

Speak for your own self, Aggie.

 

[TheTexan]

Speak for your own self, Aggie.

Denial isn't just a river in Egypt

 

[acptulsa]

Denial isn't just a river in Egypt

I've fought it tooth and nail since before I voted for Ron Paul in lieu of George HW and Dukakis. And I don't have the means to gtfo.

Paddle that up your river.

 

[TheTexan]

I've fought it tooth and nail since before I voted for Ron Paul in lieu of George HW and Dukakis. And I don't have the means to gtfo.

Paddle that up your river.

This is why we're in the place we're at now You consider what you've done to be "fighting tooth and nail".

You haven't fought shit and neither has anyone here.

Omg I've waved so many strongly worded signs in protest I have fought so hard like omg

 

[Matt Collins]

I'd prefer an outright trade ban but a tax is preferable to doing nothing.

Why do you hate freedom?

 

[acptulsa]

This is why we're in the place we're at now You consider what you've done to be "fighting tooth and nail".

You haven't fought $#@! and neither has anyone here.

Omg I've waved so many strongly worded signs in protest I have fought so hard like omg

From other people I get, "Guys like you are why us white men were discriminated against so hard the last four years," and from you I get this.

Fine. I certainly didn't come up with anything that worked. I'll own all of that from both sides. But I won't cop to volunteering for slavery.

 

[TheTexan]

From other people I get, "Guys like you are why us white men were discriminated against so hard the last four years," and from you I get this.

Fine. I certainly didn't come up with anything that worked. I'll own all of that from both sides. But I won't cop to volunteering for slavery.

Once you realize they own your life, anything short of risking your life, isn't going to change anything.

I'm certainly not judging anyone for not doing that. It just is what it is.