Comment by wat10000
7 days ago
The flaw is that it's like setting your house on fire because it's cold outside. It may well achieve your goal in the short term, but it won't last, and it's just going to make things much worse in the longer term.
7 days ago
The flaw is that it's like setting your house on fire because it's cold outside. It may well achieve your goal in the short term, but it won't last, and it's just going to make things much worse in the longer term.
I don't think it's helpful to reply to a specific, well-phrased question with a general analogy. Why is it like that?
It's like when the media would interview Robert de Niro on Trump, and all he would say is variants of "Well, he's an asshole!"
It is like that indeed. It should be apparent to anyone who has listened to Trump that he is indeed a conplete asshole. There shouldn’t be any need to go into details.
Likewise, it should be apparent to anyone with a cursory understanding of economics that tariffs are bad for the economy, and imposing mindless tariffs on the entire world is really bad for the economy. “Crash the economy to address the national debt” is a bad plan.
> Likewise, it should be apparent to anyone with a cursory understanding of economics
Can you explain why countries have tariffs if tariffs are bad for their economies as a general principle? I'm assuming you're not the standard sort who thinks Trump invented tariffs.
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