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So we are now funding our farmers for the Trade War. Sounds like this is a socialist program.
Take money paid from tariffs by US citizens and send them to the farmers.
Glad to see farmers are on-board with Universal Basic Income, even if they won't admit that what it is...
Well...
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Originally Posted by Seacove
Socialism.
Come on. It’s not socialism if you vote Republican. We’ve gotta come up with another name for it so it’ll be palatable to Conservatives. Something more anodyne.
How about The Necessitated Benificence Program. Yeah...that’s anodynic enough.
So we are now funding our farmers for the Trade War. Sounds like this is a socialist program.
Take money paid from tariffs by US citizens and send them to the farmers.
How much of a bailout are consumers getting for having to pay higher prices? Do we all get a check?
Yeah, I hope those farmers aren't taking any of that nasty socialist money.
Oh no...they’d NEVER do that. I heard that they’re refusing this money wholeheartedly. They’re saying that it goes against their principles.
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Originally Posted by Ferd
with China its a bit more sinister. they manipulate their currency and use that to offset the cost of production. they also subsidize their companies so they make money even while undercutting production costs with their trade partners.
they also control wages artificially low.
Their actions are highly predatory and not based on any free market reality. THat doesn't even begin to deal with what China does in terms of taking intellectual property, stealing technology, demanding companies that do business in China hand over valuable and proprietary information.
If we don't deal with this now, China will destroy our economy eventually. what Trump is doing is dealing with a nation that has been in a Trade war with us for 30 years.
What our liberal friends in this thread are doing is trying to pretend that by not engaging in the trade war with China, we aren't in a trade war.... its a form of insanity.
But this IS socialism, right?
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