The only two I even have enough effort to reply about are the tariffs and mandatory maternity leave.
With the tariffs, if businesses pass down the cost of the tariff by raising the prices of product, is there really a difference? I know there is, but that's 99% what's going to happen the moment that tariff would be enacted.
Mandatory maternity leave is pro-natal, and the only reason I can see people be against this is if they're against women in the workplace as a whole, which considering modern society I can completely understand, but that's a different, albeit related debate.
With the tariffs, if businesses pass down the cost of the tariff by raising the prices of product, is there really a difference? I know there is, but that's 99% what's going to happen the moment that tariff would be enacted.
From the libertarian and minarchist stand-point, I understand the criticism. However, I would argue that Trump will probably mitigate the effect by loosening regulations so that it's simply easier to start a new business in the US, than to keep importing Communist subsidized goods from slave states.
For the maternity issue, it's just not an election topic. No one was talking about it. It seems to be a luxury belief issue. I don't know any company that doesn't allow maternity leave.
However, I would argue that Trump will probably mitigate the effect by loosening regulations so that it's simply easier to start a new business in the US
For what it is worth, he has already signaled going down that route. Not only has he talked about cutting down regulations in general, he also has said he has such ideas as a significant corporate tax cut if and only if the factory set up is in the US. Which would arguably benefit smaller startups or regional/national builders over multinationals, since they will by default be entirely US based.
That's what I expect. It's basically a Whig or Chicago School move of using tariffs to build economic power. I don't like it from an Austrian position, but if you play both sides of the equation, the math works out. Then you're supposed to get off it, but people rarely do (certainly the Whigs never did).
I'll take it over a comparable or higher income tax or property taxes.
The income tax was always unconstitutional, and property tax was always bullshit.
The only two I even have enough effort to reply about are the tariffs and mandatory maternity leave.
With the tariffs, if businesses pass down the cost of the tariff by raising the prices of product, is there really a difference? I know there is, but that's 99% what's going to happen the moment that tariff would be enacted.
Mandatory maternity leave is pro-natal, and the only reason I can see people be against this is if they're against women in the workplace as a whole, which considering modern society I can completely understand, but that's a different, albeit related debate.
From the libertarian and minarchist stand-point, I understand the criticism. However, I would argue that Trump will probably mitigate the effect by loosening regulations so that it's simply easier to start a new business in the US, than to keep importing Communist subsidized goods from slave states.
For the maternity issue, it's just not an election topic. No one was talking about it. It seems to be a luxury belief issue. I don't know any company that doesn't allow maternity leave.
For what it is worth, he has already signaled going down that route. Not only has he talked about cutting down regulations in general, he also has said he has such ideas as a significant corporate tax cut if and only if the factory set up is in the US. Which would arguably benefit smaller startups or regional/national builders over multinationals, since they will by default be entirely US based.
That's what I expect. It's basically a Whig or Chicago School move of using tariffs to build economic power. I don't like it from an Austrian position, but if you play both sides of the equation, the math works out. Then you're supposed to get off it, but people rarely do (certainly the Whigs never did).