https://www.lewrockwell.com/lrc-blog/trump-brags-about-how-hes-going-to-grow-the-state/
During his long-winded rhetorical romance with protectionist tariffs President Trump excitedly boasted that “We’re gonna take in a lot of money” in tariff taxes. Oh great, “we” are going to take more money out of the pockets of the American working class with tariff taxes so that it can be spent by federal bureaucrats and politicians instead of the people who earned the money.
Republican party propaganda organs like Breitbart are struggling every day to dream up rationales in defense of protectionist plunder. Their latest defense is to cite a study that American retailers will pay more of increased tariff taxes than their customers will. Well now. So they admit that it is an anti-American, anti-populist policy that plunders both American retailers (and their American employees, their communities, and their stockholders) as well as American customers of the retailers. And all that money goes into the black hole of the federal budget. This will make America “great”?
9:49 am on March 5, 2025
