also theyre ideological libertarians

who believe we should do literally whatever we want without much, if any, government interference

and that includes economic decisions

Free trade is good to an extent though right? Just in a well regulated example

In moderation basically

free trade for industries you have no interest in protecting is good

or you simply want cheaper prices for other reasons

like steel say

steel is an input in dozens of other industries

so if you increase the price of steel with tariffs, you increase the costs of production for all those other industries

obviously this isnt good

but say you have a phone company in america and one in china

phones arent an input into anything else

so you raise the price of phone imports, but dont affect any other industry's production costs

in the short term you may affect demand of the companies who *sell to the foriegn phone companies*, but this will be swept up by your local phone manufacturer who has *increased demand* because they offer cheaper phones than china now

Very intriguing. So its greed essentially, to promote free trade and avoid the tariffs at the global economies languishment for your own personal gain.

yea

hmmmm

the main reason for free trade is your industries dont have competition anywhere in the world, so you dont need to protect your industries

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and that was the case for a long time with america actually

but now china is competing

and europe is fully rebuilt

Haven't you heard? We have no power besides mute

So if we were worried about 5G in China and the security risk it proposes, then can we impose tariffs to make it difficult for them to produce that technology?

(although shitty cuz of dumb economic system)

Okay you have power to tell someone who has power. @Darman

well yea you could mandate that america must use local companies for 5g products

but china will still sell to europe

its more that you're doing a good thing for local business

rather than "taking china out"

Mmmmmm. They are already partnering with Europe too to set up 5G towers at a reduced price.

yea

I see

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i love how these low iq doomers whine about trumps economic policies when their economy is doing better by any metric than it has in like 50 years

GG @chuckayy, you just advanced to level 13!

so brainwashed with partisanship they can’t even enjoy the good times

beta

but muh student loans

maybe you shouldn’t have taken gender studies you fuckin cuck

@chuckayy they are ideologues

“Nothing good can ever come from trump”

yup

i dont understand how people live like that

being closed minded only hinders yourself

i prescribe LSD

Trump just needs to stay out of other countries

and only focus on America

thats pretty much his strat

pulling out of syria, fixing trade with china, making nato pay more

its all good shit if ur american

Look what he's doing with Iran though and don't forget that he intervened in Syria

im canadian btw i have no dog in this fight and think i can be relatively unbiased when talking about him

after that faux 'chemical weapons' thing.

hes flexing at iran cause he wants a new nuclear deal but i honestly believe if just about anyone else was in office they would have already invaded

the system wants to go

lobby is lobbying

obama and hilary started 3 wars

if hilary won i have a really hard time believing it wouldnt have happened already

Isolationist policy

when

I still think he's controlled

to some extent for sure but i think (could be wrong) hes the most antiestablishment president in a long time

now if they do end up going into iran i will change my tune completely

and im not a massive trump dong sucker either

climate change is real

Lol a war with Iran would be horrible for everyone

Constant gas attacks and they will fuck with the oil being shipped through there

It would basically be suicide to invade it

Well, not "everyone"...there are the "businessmen" who make a fortune from war <:honk:583238347124637707>

You can’t have a war without oil

And it will be hard to transport oil under the constant threat of gas

The US would ultimately win but at the cost of trillions

https://youtu.be/5wAsoN5PjP8

Yea

It wouldn’t be worth it

And it will ruin the reputation of everyone involved

War is bad mkay

jreg is satire

@classy Jreg is actually the second Jesus

Here to unite all the extremes

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@GoldenGail3

ok so

yed

you believe those countries were communist?

Yes do a communism vs capitalism fight

if so, your wrong

Lol