[DoughtyOne]

I will tell you the one thing I didn't do: I didn't help myself to the contents of your wallet because I felt some injustice was committed. Nor would I presume to do so, in any circumstance. You feel that you can do so for my own good.

You are such a dumb ass.

Do you think it's revenue neutral to have 25% plus of our workforce out of work, and another 25% working in positions that only pay them a fraction of what they used to earn?

Whose pocket do you think the welfare, unemployment, and other financial aids they get, comes out of? The Swiss? The Mexicans? The Kenyans?

You profess not want to take money out of my pocket, but you're perfectly happy to block that money from every getting into my pocket in the first place aren't you. This didn't occur to you? Seriously?

I'd be interested to know what sort of people you think our nation's founders were. Evidently you think they were union boss Marxists, Communists, Socialists, and worse.

They set up a system where our government was financed by tariffs. Their reasoning was that this would be a limit on the size and scope of government. The revenue wouldn't be enough for the government to finance every pipe dream it wanted.

So today you trash folks who want trade brought back to a reasoned level, and denigrate our founders with your insults to people who never stated they wanted to have tariffs raised in the first place.

One more thing I'll note about you, is that I have never seen you mention monetary manipulation by China which sees our goods have to hurdle a roughly 40% tariff going into China, and thus limiting our exports to that nation.

Since that also impacts employment here, you should be all over it. Never have I see you raise that subject, although you profess to hate tariffs that hurt our citizens.

So either you know nothing of what you're talking about, our you're flat out pushing propaganda on purpose.

[1rudeboy]

You profess not want to take money out of my pocket, but you're perfectly happy to block that money from every getting into my pocket in the first place aren't you. This didn't occur to you? Seriously?

In other words, I must pay higher taxes to the government because you feel that the government needs to protect you from me.

I have an idea: let's set-up a computer system so the government can keep track of all this. We can give it some time, maybe three years, and plenty of money. We can determine who gets, and doesn't get, cheap stuff. To be on the safe side (because buying stuff is complicated), let's experiment on only one-sixth of the economy first. What can possibly go wrong?