This reminds me of what I was taught about tariffs in “history” class. My memory is fuzzy, but I remember coming away from history class thinking tariffs were bad (isolating) for the economy. Yet another example of how I (we) were indoctrinated from day one!
That thinking relies on the usually reliable assumption that our leaders are incompetent and slow-moving, and can’t negotiate. With that, what you were taught is accurate, but we don’t live in that world anymore, thank God. Hopefully congress can get their act together or are cleaned up soon.
TA-DAAAaaa! And this is the very purpose of Trump's tariffs.
Well that won't lead to WW3 with China
This reminds me of what I was taught about tariffs in “history” class. My memory is fuzzy, but I remember coming away from history class thinking tariffs were bad (isolating) for the economy. Yet another example of how I (we) were indoctrinated from day one!
That thinking relies on the usually reliable assumption that our leaders are incompetent and slow-moving, and can’t negotiate. With that, what you were taught is accurate, but we don’t live in that world anymore, thank God. Hopefully congress can get their act together or are cleaned up soon.