Message from @oprahsminge
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Because it's easy revenue.
And?
Easier revenue than personal income tax.
They just move production to Vietnam. It's not like it'll come back here
And we just tariff imports from Vietnam.
Okay, but you're not providing justification. You're just bitching
Let's just tariff the entire third world?
Exactly.
Tariffs on China makes sense because they are an economic competitor.
Vietnam isn't.
Everybody who buys or sells something is an economic competitor.
Don't play semantics. It's childish
>let's have our industry be non competitive because it isn't competitive now
You know what is meant in that statement
I'm speaking textbook economics. I don't know what dialect you're speaking.
Nigger please
Racist
You're speaking "I read a single book about economics"
My car was stolen by a black guy @oprahsminge
You prick
You're speaking in terms of heavy interventionism because the economy isn't working the way you like lol
A lot more than one. And they all define economic activity in the same competitive terms.
Whatever you say bud.
>I don't care what is causing the problem, just tax everyone lol
Lul
Because that works
Who wants our industry to be non-competitive?
You apparently
We are losing to China because we are not competitive
I want as much domestic competition as possible.
Thus the solution isn't to preserve non competitiveness via protectionism
It's to figure out why we aren't competitive
You wanna make people competitive by taking their money?
What the fuck
What you mean is that we're losing a competition with China that we shouldn't even be engaged in.
On what basis?
America does not produce everything it needs, nor is it feasible for it to do so
You dont like global trade?
Competition with the third world to see who can be the most third-world is a fool's game that we shouldn't be playing.
1. You're going to drastically increase the cost of goods
2. You're going to have to heavily industrialize more of your country by a substantial amount, without sufficient monetary inventive existing organically
3. You're probably still not going to have good domestic competition due to the way taxation, lobbying etc works