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> Japan and Germany engineer those producing versus consuming choices deliberately > Americans wanted to change that Isn't 'smaller government' a one of the t
by ricardobeat 2y ago
> Japan and Germany engineer those producing versus consuming choices deliberately
> Americans wanted to change that
Isn't 'smaller government' a one of the top mantras for republicans in the US? This is all extremely contradictory.
- rayiner 2y agoFree trade isn’t “smaller government,” because in practice this has meant maintaining a worldwide military empire to maintain the USD as the reserve currency. Regardless, tariffs and protectionism was a founding pillar of the Republican Party. The party existed for 130 years before the libertarian phase of the 1980s.