And what moral right do you have to dictate to me from who and how much I pay for steel? If you aren’t part of the transaction it’s none of your damn business.
Tariffs are a tax....on everybody. They rarely accomplish what their proponents claim.
We no longer use “Real Money” and we are exchanging bookkeeping entries for hard goods. Sooner or later for those bookkeeping entries to be of any use to their holders they will need to bring them back to exchange them for something tangible. Think of a dollar bill as a check written on an account. If you hold that check you will want to deposit it or cash it in, otherwise it is just a slip of paper.
“And what moral right do you have to dictate to me...”
Are you serious? You must prefer Xi Jinping dictating prices for you over Donald Trump. When our steel industry is destroyed, you must have faith in the tender mercies of a foreign dictator.
And all those industries you want to surrender? During the next war we will have to petition our enemies to supply our steel and computer chips in order to fight them. And our antibiotics to help heal us.
Why do you evade answering my questions instead of going off on the tangential nonsense about “real” money.
“And what moral right do you have to dictate to me from who and how much I pay for steel? If you aren’t part of the transaction it’s none of your damn business”
Washington, Jefferson, Adams, Lincoln, Madison, Jackson, Clay, et al completely disagree with you. But don’t worry, you have Woodrow Wilson in your corner.