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southdenverhoo

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This lefty is not 100% sure that some tariffs are not salutary


...in small doses and as a first-step means of perhaps negotiating a reduction in some of our trade partners' own protectionist barriers. And don't suggest that they don't have them, or that Trump's action is a unilateral thing, because they do and it isn't, though it admittedly violates the current equilibrium.

I understand the bipartisan support for free trade no matter what, but I've always been at least a little skeptical about its absolute goodness & necessity and its status as sacred cow.

In any event they are good populist politics in western PA, and great swathes of the Rust Belt, that's for damn sure.

(In response to this post by Hoodafan)

Posted: 03/14/2018 at 2:21PM



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