Paul is wrong and Trump is wrong on tariffs. They’re both wrong.
Tariffs are a tax. But who cares. The lolbertarian lives in a fictional universe where all money that leaves our economy magically comes back in, but where international debt trading instruments don’t exist, where corporate interests magically manifest towards the “optimal outcome” in some bullshit invisible hand society, and where individual rights amongst dramatically disparate social groups somehow march towards shared interests and freedom.
Meanwhile Trump is slapping tariffs on countries and revoking them in the span of 24 hours because muh 4D chess (read “I think tariffs are a bargaining tool and not a multi decade economic strategy to onshore critical industry”)
What does Paul stand for any more? What is he measurably pushing back against? Nothing.
What does Trump stand for? How is he planning to institutionalize reforms that permanently cripple the left? He’s not.
Paul is wrong and Trump is wrong on tariffs. They’re both wrong.
Tariffs are a tax. But who cares. The lolbertarian lives in a fictional universe where all money that leaves our economy magically comes back in, but where international debt trading instruments don’t exist, where corporate interests magically manifest towards the “optimal outcome” in some bullshit invisible hand society, and where individual rights amongst dramatically disparate social groups somehow march towards shared interests and freedom.
Meanwhile Trump is slapping tariffs on countries and revoking them in the span of 24 hours because muh 4D chess (read “I think tariffs are a bargaining tool and not a multi decade economic strategy to onshore critical industry”)
What does Paul stand for any more? What is he measurably pushing back against? Nothing.
What does Trump stand for? How is he planning to institutionalize reforms that permanently cripple the left? He’s not.
They’re both being retarded.