Tariffs cause pain or not depending on how society is structured.
So if most of our core goods (grain, dairy, meat, veg) are imports, most of our goods are thus taxed. So much for that woke Immigrant Awareness Day where immigrants don't attend work.
If on the other hand, only specialty goods (like that Nintendo product) are imports, the tax is basically a luxury tax.
You choice.
Double down on immigrants as a way of life, or accept that Americans can in fact make things themselves. But no, we're content to fiddle around on our cellphones, convinced that our tech crap makes a difference. Sorry, farmers and factory workers make a difference. We have managed without big tech for thousands of years.
Currently though, it sounds like Congress and the judicial system is starting to balk at these executive orders, so I wonder if he can manage any of this. This is probably a good thing. Look all you "You support him" doofuses. Sometime read what I actually say. What I don't want is a tyranny. And I know what one feels like having seen China from an overseas trip. No, it does not matter to me if someone offers free perks or so-called special rights.
I am utterly tired of big government. I am tired of leftism, rightism, seriously, just leave everyone the fuck alone. If I want to go to church or work in a dress? Nobody's damned business. Nothing about that requires large taxes. But yet, that's what happened under Biden. If I want to make high salary? Shouldn't be the IRS's damned business either.
Just go away everyone. I just to hang out with people in my town. Talk to my neighbors, swim in a pool in the summer, shovel snow in the winter, see about planting seeds for a farm if I feel up to it, or just kinda be depressed if not. See if I can date someone and maybe have a family. If not, just stop bugging me with regulations. No, I don't want to try to find two proofs of legal presence, a birth certificate and a few other papers. No, I don't want to have people filling out income taxes for me when I barely made anything. No, I don't open borders, and no I don't particularly want any immigration drama either.
Just go away everyone. That's my political stance.
I'm conservative when the country is too liberal, I lean center when it's too (I don't lean left anymore because leftists are fucking crazy), and right now, the country is too damned polarized. I don't want any of it. I just want it all to collapse.
No, I don't fucking care, Lord Dave, what people think of me. And for the record, I did the same thing in a Pridefest. You know what they said? "No such thing." That guy was probably one of the chill people there. I am really really tired of all this crap. So let's assume Trump fails. Like me, if he becomes tired when the public no longer supports of believes in his ideals. What then? Well, America's days are sorely numbered. Her taxes are too high, her money is inflated, her standard of living is vastly incompatible from what people make to what people in big cities think should be charged. America's likely to go out with a whimper not a bang.
Oh no! Conservatives will discriminate against me. Who fucking cares? I love this country, and can't stand to see it a pale shadow of itself. You know the discrimination I really see, though? You guys. I see how often that I'm attacked by the left. The right wouldn't bother me at all if they managed to streamline the ID system. But the left, like some old abuser, tells me that nobody else will ever love me. Sorry, but I'm afraid you are wrong. My largely conservative town accepted me in church, in where I worked, when I voted, and so on. The didn't care how I looked. On the other hand, I distinctly recall walking up and down the largely liberal town nearby, and found that work application one after another fell through.
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/new-poll-shows-americans-overwhelmingly-oppose-anti-transgender-lawsBig hint: not all Americans are liberal. So this means plenty of conservatives, like the ones I've encountered, do in fact oppose such anti-trans regulation. But we do NOT need bloated government regulation, only sensible and compassionate people.
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