What is the point of a nation that does not work to benefit the tribe that comprises it?
Some (many?) libertarians think the idea of nation is an evil and unnecessary detriment to free markets. In other words, just a different flavor of globalist.
Raised taxes on exports (to companies that sell their products to the international market), and lower them on imports (products entering the country's local market).
It is a hostile policy to local companies, since internationally they will have to sell at a higher price, locally as well, and the products of foreign companies will have a lower price.
It is an explicitly anti-liberal and anti-libertarian tax policy. (It's called deindustrialization policy).
There is a reason why Donald Trump's protectionism made sense, how do you compete in a market where foreign companies have slave labor in Africa and Asia, and can afford to take your market with low prices and slowly destroy your companies that can't compete?.
In the short term you experience real price drops that solve inflation, but in the medium and long term your companies go bankrupt and are acquired by foreign companies, and have practically no competition.
This leaves your entire country completely dependent on mega corporations, billionaires and foreign states (who control the flow of products and production), who will have a very strong position of influence over your politicians in matters of diplomacy and law.
Raised taxes on exports (to companies that sell their products to the international market), and lower them on imports (products entering the country's local market).
I was asking for numbers, not an explanation.
And I'm not arguing for or against what he's done, just pointing out that it's not inconsistent with a libertarian philosophy.
And I'm also not arguing for or against libertarian philosophy.
Libertarianism is utopian nonsense that just like communism ignores human nature in favor of feverish idealism. Both empower hierarchies in the hope that they'll eventually diminish their own power voluntarily (they won't).
Firstly I hold no economic system as sacred, they are just tools and I refuse to be forced into the Marxist dichotomy of capitalism vs socialism. Secondly I'm a monarchist who was once staunchly libertarian.
Raised them from what to what, and lowered them from what to what?
If they had protectionist tax laws to begin with, equalizing them, which is 100% in line with libertarian beliefs, would be exactly this.
Similarly, allowing foreign entities to buy land is 100% in line with libertarian beliefs.
Which is why libertarianism is a failed, meme, philosophy. What is the point of a nation that does not work to benefit the tribe that comprises it?
Some (many?) libertarians think the idea of nation is an evil and unnecessary detriment to free markets. In other words, just a different flavor of globalist.
Sounds like socialism is what you prefer.
Raised taxes on exports (to companies that sell their products to the international market), and lower them on imports (products entering the country's local market).
It is a hostile policy to local companies, since internationally they will have to sell at a higher price, locally as well, and the products of foreign companies will have a lower price.
It is an explicitly anti-liberal and anti-libertarian tax policy. (It's called deindustrialization policy).
There is a reason why Donald Trump's protectionism made sense, how do you compete in a market where foreign companies have slave labor in Africa and Asia, and can afford to take your market with low prices and slowly destroy your companies that can't compete?.
In the short term you experience real price drops that solve inflation, but in the medium and long term your companies go bankrupt and are acquired by foreign companies, and have practically no competition.
This leaves your entire country completely dependent on mega corporations, billionaires and foreign states (who control the flow of products and production), who will have a very strong position of influence over your politicians in matters of diplomacy and law.
Doesn't that sound familiar?.
I was asking for numbers, not an explanation.
And I'm not arguing for or against what he's done, just pointing out that it's not inconsistent with a libertarian philosophy.
And I'm also not arguing for or against libertarian philosophy.
You're pissing up ropes if you're hoping to get answers from the /pol/acks that flooded this site.
And yet you stand against the only person who had a plan to get rid of them.
To get rid of a cancer, you cut out the source, then irradiate affected areas to kill what remains.
Close down CuntPro.
Wow, that's a lot of words to not answer the fucking question.
Libertarianism is utopian nonsense that just like communism ignores human nature in favor of feverish idealism. Both empower hierarchies in the hope that they'll eventually diminish their own power voluntarily (they won't).
Firstly I hold no economic system as sacred, they are just tools and I refuse to be forced into the Marxist dichotomy of capitalism vs socialism. Secondly I'm a monarchist who was once staunchly libertarian.