Snowball
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Tariffs are just another scam. Not because they restrict unnecessary and harmful "trade" activities, no, not because of that.
Unnecessary and harmful "trade" activities can just be BANNED. But there's no profit in banning, not for the government, in taxes, and not for the capitalists on either side of the "trade", which takes place merely between THEMSELVES, regardless of what "country" they "trade" between.
In the final transaction, it is the purchaser or "consumer" of the end-product who suffers in many ways. Let's us count just SOME of the ways the end-product purchaser suffers in the laissez-faire, BIG GOV + BIG BIZ tag-team against the citizen scam.
1) Offshoring of jobs in all phases, from raw materials to manufacturing to machines necessary for manufacturing, labor, and municipal taxes and local businesses which all suffer from the exodus of industrial and commercial infrastructures in their local communities.
2) Loss of self-sufficiency in both immediately-available goods, and in skills required to produce them.
3) Loss of local and state tax revenues from incomes and from real estate.
4) Attenuation of local small businesses who cannot compete effectively, and cannot service factories which are no longer there.
How do international, globalist banks and corporations, financial entities such as stock market underwriters and foreign elites benefit from this?
1) By gaining access to our domestic market.
2) By setting up in countries with weak or non-existent labor and environmental laws.
3) By using their wealth to bribe and pre-select our politicians who write our laws for us.
4) By flooding the marketplace with non-local, non-regional, non-indigenous megacorps.
5) By raiding the bankrupted domestic companies of their assets, converting those real estate assets into residential and office buldings they charge rent on.
6) By convincing politicians that the higher taxes from tariffs and import duties are "good" for the public trough, which only results in bigger government and larger spending, more military commitments to make those other countries "safe for democracy", and "reliable" trading partners.
I could go on but you should have the idea.
A real solution in specific cases is to simply pass a law PROHIBITING the import of "x", or the export of "y". Prohibiting, say, the import of Chinese cars costs nothing to anyone, and has only positive effects, unlike tariffs. Prohibiting, say, the export of natural gas would only lower the prices for Americans, and keep domestic fuel abundant, inexpensive, and available. But no. Laissez-faire capitalists do not want any of these good results. Not good for the average people. They want BIG GOV and BIG BIZ because they come to control BOTH via their money power. That's where we are. A separate and unanswerable great power of uber-capitalists have taken over because they brainwashed people into thinking that what's good for them is good for the masses. The scam is similar to the graduated income-tax scam, which does nothing but increase asset values, inflation of currency, concentration of wealth, and growth of government by proxy, the hidden hand of international high finance families - an exceptionally limited number of people.
Americans used to understand these things, and they used to discuss them. That was before the indoctrination and dilution of our identity. So, I'm here to tell you.. tariffs are bad, but unrestricted free trade is the fountain of pain that made tariffs appear to have benefits in the first place. True protectionism is good, costs nothing, has only benefits, and brought health to this country. Sadly, it ceased to exist, and now we're an empire of the banking establishment that conquered us, and our institutions defend that high council which seeks to conquer the whole world, and use our military and our people power as a its battering ram, seeking to ultimately knock down that last castle of resistance... so that they may enjoy a permanent hegemony over all mankind.
Unnecessary and harmful "trade" activities can just be BANNED. But there's no profit in banning, not for the government, in taxes, and not for the capitalists on either side of the "trade", which takes place merely between THEMSELVES, regardless of what "country" they "trade" between.
In the final transaction, it is the purchaser or "consumer" of the end-product who suffers in many ways. Let's us count just SOME of the ways the end-product purchaser suffers in the laissez-faire, BIG GOV + BIG BIZ tag-team against the citizen scam.
1) Offshoring of jobs in all phases, from raw materials to manufacturing to machines necessary for manufacturing, labor, and municipal taxes and local businesses which all suffer from the exodus of industrial and commercial infrastructures in their local communities.
2) Loss of self-sufficiency in both immediately-available goods, and in skills required to produce them.
3) Loss of local and state tax revenues from incomes and from real estate.
4) Attenuation of local small businesses who cannot compete effectively, and cannot service factories which are no longer there.
How do international, globalist banks and corporations, financial entities such as stock market underwriters and foreign elites benefit from this?
1) By gaining access to our domestic market.
2) By setting up in countries with weak or non-existent labor and environmental laws.
3) By using their wealth to bribe and pre-select our politicians who write our laws for us.
4) By flooding the marketplace with non-local, non-regional, non-indigenous megacorps.
5) By raiding the bankrupted domestic companies of their assets, converting those real estate assets into residential and office buldings they charge rent on.
6) By convincing politicians that the higher taxes from tariffs and import duties are "good" for the public trough, which only results in bigger government and larger spending, more military commitments to make those other countries "safe for democracy", and "reliable" trading partners.
I could go on but you should have the idea.
A real solution in specific cases is to simply pass a law PROHIBITING the import of "x", or the export of "y". Prohibiting, say, the import of Chinese cars costs nothing to anyone, and has only positive effects, unlike tariffs. Prohibiting, say, the export of natural gas would only lower the prices for Americans, and keep domestic fuel abundant, inexpensive, and available. But no. Laissez-faire capitalists do not want any of these good results. Not good for the average people. They want BIG GOV and BIG BIZ because they come to control BOTH via their money power. That's where we are. A separate and unanswerable great power of uber-capitalists have taken over because they brainwashed people into thinking that what's good for them is good for the masses. The scam is similar to the graduated income-tax scam, which does nothing but increase asset values, inflation of currency, concentration of wealth, and growth of government by proxy, the hidden hand of international high finance families - an exceptionally limited number of people.
Americans used to understand these things, and they used to discuss them. That was before the indoctrination and dilution of our identity. So, I'm here to tell you.. tariffs are bad, but unrestricted free trade is the fountain of pain that made tariffs appear to have benefits in the first place. True protectionism is good, costs nothing, has only benefits, and brought health to this country. Sadly, it ceased to exist, and now we're an empire of the banking establishment that conquered us, and our institutions defend that high council which seeks to conquer the whole world, and use our military and our people power as a its battering ram, seeking to ultimately knock down that last castle of resistance... so that they may enjoy a permanent hegemony over all mankind.
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