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Old 03-23-2018, 12:37 PM
 
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I wonder if china will cancel all of the crap they gave trump?
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Old 03-23-2018, 12:51 PM
 
Location: Middle of the valley
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I wonder if it will be like the steel tariffs? Says he is going to do one thing, and then completely does another.
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Old 03-23-2018, 12:59 PM
 
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Russia is not protecting Trump...they are using him for their benefits. Putin is a killer. I'm not talking just ordering people to kill but has pulled the trigger himself. There is documented material supporting this. Trump is being outsmarted by China and Russia.

My bet; China and Russia are meeting secretly and are having a big laugh right now about the Chinese tariffs.
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Old 03-23-2018, 01:03 PM
 
Location: Denver, CO
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Yeah, that’s the standard right wing creed.

Unfortunately, that’s already been tried. It was tried during the Gilded Age of the late 19th century and the result was misery and poverty for everyone except the robber barons and the political class.

In the late 1800s, America wasn’t a country worth defending.
That wasn't free-market capitalism. That was crony corporatism. They're not even close to being the same thing.

Hell, even Mark Twain's book about it was called "Crony Capitalism."
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Old 03-23-2018, 01:05 PM
 
Location: Denver, CO
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Why not? My favorite car I ever owned was a 2014 Ford Mustang GT 5.0, I loved that car
I'm sure there are some good cars. I just don't support unions like the UAW.
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Old 03-23-2018, 01:56 PM
 
Location: Live:Downtown Phoenix, AZ/Work:Greater Los Angeles, CA
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I'm sure there are some good cars. I just don't support unions like the UAW.
What's wrong with unions?
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Old 03-23-2018, 01:59 PM
 
Location: USA
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That wasn't free-market capitalism. That was crony corporatism. They're not even close to being the same thing.

Hell, even Mark Twain's book about it was called "Crony Capitalism."
All capitalism is crony capitalism.

All businesses want an unfair advantage, and will buy it from politicians if they have the money to do so.

Happy Fair Utopia Capitalism only exists in the imaginations of libertarians and college freshmen who just took their first Econ course.
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Old 03-23-2018, 02:35 PM
 
Location: Denver, CO
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What's wrong with unions?
Unions reward laziness and don't reward extra effort.
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Old 03-23-2018, 02:42 PM
 
Location: Denver, CO
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All capitalism is crony capitalism.

All businesses want an unfair advantage, and will buy it from politicians if they have the money to do so.

Happy Fair Utopia Capitalism only exists in the imaginations of libertarians and college freshmen who just took their first Econ course.
In an anarchist society there are no politicians no buy off.

Funny, because the vast majority of economists are some of the most educated people on the planet: Thomas Sowell, Walter Williams, Robert Higgs, Walter Block, Murray Sabrin. And the late Murray Rothbard, Ludwig von Mises, Henry Hazlitt, Friedrich Hayek, and Frederic Bastiat.
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Old 03-23-2018, 06:17 PM
 
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So in near future, a lot of things will become more expensive?

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President Donald Trump will impose tariffs on at least $50 billion in Chinese goods imports to retaliate against the alleged theft of American intellectual property, White House officials said Thursday.

Saying it would be the "first of many" trade actions, Trump signed the order that also will look at restrictions on Chinese investment in the US.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-tak...170735980.html
Wealth inequality and the income gap has been growing thanks to globalism.
So, it goes without saying, it will also be those that will be hurt the most as well.

They can only charge so much in the market that consumers are willing to pay, so they can not raise prices.
They cannot lower wages because they would have already done so, they are not a charity.
So that leaves profit cutting from shareholders and upper ceo pay.
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