Tucker Carlson's Broadside Against Austrian Economics

The Mises Institute ^ | 06/07/2019 | Jeff Deist

[central_va]

Bad tariffs.. evil tariffs! bad tariffs! no tariffs, tariffs bad, tariffs evil!!

You'll never hear that chant in an EU, Japanese or Chinese business school.

[central_va]

Justifying the world’s mercantilism should be punishable by death.

[central_va]

Hamitic trained economists are not historians. Actually I think b-schools frown upon learning history.

[central_va]

You are full of curry. The USA funded the Federal Government with tariffs from 1789 until 1913. The USA was indeed a text book merchantilist nation during that time. Those are facts not in dispute. So stuff your Free Traitor™ lies.

[InterceptPoint]

Wow, you are prime example of the stupid American. You have no concept that economics, borders and politics are all rolled up into one thing as such THEY CANNOT BE SEPARATED.
Long term strategic economic planning is a foreign concept to myopic fools like you.
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Wow! I suppose I should go back and read what I wrote. But I think I will clarify instead.

1. I listened to the Tucker Carson comments live on Fox. You should look it up and watch it yourself. It was not a pitch for using tariffs. It was a pitch for government intervention in many ways. More ways than I could support.

2, I support the Trump tariff policy with China. I am nervous that the Chinese, being Chinese, will just sit back and wait for another election cycle.

3. I support the Trump Mexico Tariff policy. I did right from the get-go. I do hope the Mexicans actually do something. I think they will but I wouldn’t bet my life on it.

4. I recognize that there are industries that need to be supported for many reasons including national defense and agriculture for example.

5. I also recognize that you can’t just set back and let the world steal your technology and raise tariffs on American goods without a response. Correct me if I’m wrong but I believe that is the Trump policy which I support.

6. Given all of that what really counts is that we have close to full employment and the people working at the highest skill level possible. The jobs and industries will evolve over time. You have seen that in spades in your lifetime. I expect that to continue.

7. What this leads to is a policy that, when necessary, sets tariffs to counter the actions of all trading partners and protects our farmers and key industries. That is the world we live in.

8. A better world would be one where tariffs fall by mutual agreement while maintaining trade balance. Better deal for consumers. Worse for the Treasury.

[rollo tomasi]

Give me one prominent and persuasive (Key point) politician in the last 80 years that pimped Austrian economics. Everyone is a “spend, inflate, produce debt, and die before the bill comes due for thee” short-sighted pragmatists.

Carlson is swallowing populism poison again to the tune of $22 trillion in debt with mass amounts of spending yet to come. This is not surprising since he is a big Andrew Yang democrat pimp.