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If the concern is trade deficit then buying more imports would be the capitulation.
by bitmasher9 2y ago
If the concern is trade deficit then buying more imports would be the capitulation.
- Tadpole9181 2y agoAre you seriously suggesting that countries will just force their citizens to buy products they can't afford and don't want? Especially democratic nations? Seriously?
- TaurenHunter 2y agoWhy don't you steelman the argument instead of using the most uncharitable interpretation possible?
- Tadpole9181 2y agoIf the parent is saying that other countries can compromise by "importing more" until the trade deficit is fixed, there is no alternative to my statement. That is the argument being made. The government of that country would need to require it's citizens to purchase US goods regardless of their will or ability or need. That's how buying things works.
- SpicyLemonZest 2y agoI reject the idea that it's my job to come up with a good implementation of an idea I don't support. I'm not on board with "buying more imports would be the capitulation" precisely because I can't imagine any sensible way EU regulators could achieve that. You could nibble at the edges and make the beef lobby happy, but the Trump administration's belief that trade deficits are necessarily caused by bad regulation which could be repealed is just wrong.
- bitmasher9 2y agoI’m not suggesting that anyone actually do it. I’m suggesting that it maybe what the Trump administration is looking for.
- Tadpole9181 2y agoAh, gotcha. Apologies for not reading usernames, I thought you were the grandparent!
- BobaFloutist 2y agoWhat imports though? What the fuck is China supposed to do, buy 200,000,000,000 cases of scotch?
- bitmasher9 2y agoIt wouldn’t be the first time a president played the roll of Boeing salesman.