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i'm a bit of a retard and would like to hear some opinions on the tariff shit. good? bad? potential? basically all i know is that they can be used as a bargaining chip.

@beardalaxy tariffs distort the market, but so does everything else. It's bad but worrying about it is like worrying about the blinding light from the moon, while forgetting that the sun (Federal Reserve) also comes out. In lots of specific ways tariffs will be a specific shock. The goal of making domestic production more competitive isn't an insane one, but it's hard to take seriously when a Democrat can come back into office and sweep that production right back into the garbage.

If you want some economic perspective there's https://mises.org/search?articles_prod%5Bquery%5D=tariff (opposed, and based)
or https://www.cato.org/search?query=tariff (opposed, and cucked)

I always recommend this, a very entertaining speech about a whole bunch of distortions from taxation in Great Britain: https://mises.org/podcasts/trouble-taxation/taxation-and-literary-history-or-who-killed-john-keats
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