Navarro is the sketchy author of the tariff bullshit

mandrill

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I am not convinced this is true.
Trump has been tariff obsessed for decades.
I think it is more they went and found Navarro to try and justify what Trump already believed.

I can believe that maybe the final form it took has a lot to do with Navarro, though.
He would have explained the "real economics" behind Trump's instinctual preferences.
Why tf is the Orange Halfwit obsessed with tariffs in an economically inter dependent world?
 

Valcazar

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Why tf is the Orange Halfwit obsessed with tariffs in an economically inter dependent world?
I think Roy Cohn told him McKinley was great sometime when he was a kid and it stuck.

(I have no idea, actually. We may never know.)
 
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Frankfooter

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Why tf is the Orange Halfwit obsessed with tariffs in an economically inter dependent world?
trump has mentioned his rationale a couple of times.
End income tax, close the IRS and replace that income with tariffs.

Really stupid and just another massive move of wealth from the majority of americans to the super wealthy, but that's his goal.

Its only a matter of time before the next eat the rich, let them eat cake revolution.

 

kherg007

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One tariff theory is Trump likes them because he can wield them to punish and reward who he wishes without having to get approval. (Only when an emergency is declared, hence the emergency he declared was the fentanyl coming in from Canada and Mexico). (Yes, something like 40 lbs all year from Canada but what are facts...).
Part of the reason they were done away with 100+ years ago in USA was the corruption caused when deciding who gets a waiver.
Trump though likely sees that power as a plus.
 
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