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>They want poor(er) people to hurt, so that rich people can have more. It really is as simple as that. What about rest of Trump's policies? Are tariffs also a
by gruez 11mo ago
>They want poor(er) people to hurt, so that rich people can have more. It really is as simple as that.
What about rest of Trump's policies? Are tariffs also a "so that rich people can have more" policy, contrary to the "globalization only benefit the rich" rhetoric of the 2000s?
- danaris 11mo agoNo: they're based on a specific set of lies he was sold back in the 1980s. There's a particular guy (I'm afraid I don't recall his name) who has been banging the tariff drum and claiming that they're some kind of economic panacea, and he apparently caught Trump at a very pliant time. (I've tried to find who it was again, but it's hard to search for simply "who convinced Trump that tariffs are a good idea?")