Trump to enact $7.5 billion in tariffs on EU imports following WTO ruling
Boom! EU is hammered by Trump. Illegal subsidies finally recognized. Level the playing field.
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Then when I point out that is basically socialism they respond with something like "stop being autistic."
They just don't have any grasp of politics, because of no grasp of the more fundamental philosophical concepts and so are reduced to a childish level of Trump-good, democrats-bad.
They just can't see that Trump isn't all that different from democrats. They don't have the knowledge, the principles, nor the thinking skills to even begin.
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But yes, I agree, Trump likes to remind folks that we carry the bigger stick as they approach the negotiating table. I for one think its about damn time.
"You have no right to punish innocent American citizens with high taxes to try to impact foreign countries. Defending the rights of the individual is not a matter of what I 'don't like'. There is no excuse for conservative statism."
Rejecting statism (and pragmatism) on an Ayn Rand forum is and should be routine, not an excuse for militant conservative resentment with "you have all the answers in your objectivist mind" and "people get tired of a self imposed know it all". If you don't like Ayn Rand's philosophy you are welcome to post somewhere else.
Trump has been infatuated with statist tariffs since the 1980s. "Fair and balanced" trade in the mind of a statist is not economic freedom, and neither are his "solutions" of nationalist trade wars with higher taxes punishing innocent Americans.
The "pattern" here is rejection of militant statist conservatives routinely and stubbornly promoting the violation of rights of the individual. Especially on a forum for Ayn Rand's philosophy of reason and individualism it should be no surprise that such statism is and should be rejected and denounced.
That was Peter's point, for which he is savagely 'downvoted' into oblivion in order to 'hide' all of his post by militant, anti-Ayn Rand conservatives, and which evidently went over the heads of the same anti-intellectuals who maliciously corrupt the purpose of this forum and militantly attack with seething resentment anyone who dares to defend the rights of the individual on an Ayn Rand forum.
Your promoting punishing innocent Americans with high taxes in order to control and manipulate behavior is a statist violation of rights and most certainly is anti-American. The use of tariffs for government interference in favoring selecting industries with coercive protectionism was an early example of the anti-individualist trend described by historian Arthur Ekirch's The Decline of American Liberalism.
There is no political "solution" to economic conditions that you don't like. Demanding such a political "solution" to impose what you want in the economy is a statist false premise. Refusing to give you what does not morally exist, rejecting your false premises, is not a "dodge".
Ayn Rand once observed that conservatives and liberals differ only in that each wants to coercively control what it believes to be most important. That used to mean liberals controlling the economy and conservatives controlling personal and social behavior. Now both want to control both realms.
You have no right to punish innocent American citizens with high taxes to try to impact foreign countries. Defending the rights of the individual is not a matter of what I "don't like". There is no excuse for conservative statism.
Trump is trying to get a fair and balanced foreign trade. You think you have all the answers in your objectivist mind. People get tired of a self imposed know it all. We have allowed China to devastate our manufacturing base. Trump is returning much of it to the US. Record low unemployment and rising wages have been a result. All while fighting off a coup.
Advocating more leftist government is not "understanding reality", it is unprincipled Pragmatism with collectivist criteria creating more "evil and malice" -- such as imposing new high taxes on innocent Americans for price controls in the name of punishing a foreign country. Proper principles are required for understanding and living in reality. Pragmatism does not "work".
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