I'll be skeptical of your anecdotes and Chinese government statistics. You keep believing the Commies and your little anecdotes.
Yes you do. All the time.
No I don't. Not once. Never.
Your not wanting to "emulate them" confirms you have absolutely no idea how to oppose them.
They hurt their people with their manipulations. I'd prefer not to hurt the American people with your manipulations.
Well, then you have a contradiction, since my policies are his.
Reagan lowered tariffs. Which tariffs do you want to lower?
Actually, I'm not citing the "Chinese government" statistics. But of course, now you're suddenly, and only selectively, apparently skeptical of OUR U.S. measures (i.e., the World Bank) of China's economy. And I will believe real facts, "little anecdotes" over a government fib anytime. You should too.
They hurt their people with their manipulations. I'd prefer not to hurt the American people with your manipulations.
Actually they hurt the "American People" with their tariffs, and the rest of their trade barriers and manipulation. But you don't care about that. You call it the invisible hand, when it isn't. You call it win-win, when it isn't.
Reagan lowered tariffs.
Only selectively. Not wholesale...and for good reason.
Which tariffs do you want to lower?
How about in Foreign countries for a start? And their other trade manipulations. Just as Reagan used ours as a practical lever. He never preached unilateral disarmament in anything. He knew human nature too well. And he was a master at negotiation.
And precisely which taxes most hurt "the U.S. people"? What are the taxes which most impair U.S. choices? How about the taxes which differentially and actively discriminate AGAINST U.S. production? It's as if we are aiding and abetting the foreign mercantalists and their tariffs. How about eliminating the "tariff" of the U.S. capital gains tax? The "tariff" of the U.S. Corporate Income Tax? The "tariff" of the U.S. Personal Income Tax.
I advocate for the ending of these all the time. We never see you doing that. Ever.
So you aren't doing the American People any favors. God save us from people like you who are "protecting us." With protectors like you...who needs enemies?