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The best explanation I’ve seen is that tariffs are a stick that can be used to enforce compliance with other policies, and selectively lifted when companies ben
by relaxing 2y ago
The best explanation I’ve seen is that tariffs are a stick that can be used to enforce compliance with other policies, and selectively lifted when companies bend the knee.
- rsynnott 2y agoThat isn’t really how they’re supposed to work, and in a normally functioning country the state could expect to be sued by the injured parties (that is, the competitors of the specially favoured companies) if they tried it. Of course, in 2025 the US is hardly a normally functioning country, but it’s also not clear that its court system is _totally_ compromised, and any company who went along with this would certainly be taking a risk.
- relaxing 2y agoSue and risk further sanctions? We’re already seeing how little backbone there is for standing up to such actions.