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Oh it’ll be much worse. 1. the whole argument that’s put forth in favor of tariffing the shit out of everyone is that it’s a more effective way to raise revenues than nominal taxation. There’s never been any evidence given on this; it’s really just a religious belief at best and at worst it’s just a pretext for rich people not to pay taxes 2. Think what that revenue was used to pay for with Smoot-Hawley and now think about how tax revenues are used today. Smoot-Hawley was passed at a time that was pre-Medicare, pre-Medicaid, pre-social security, pre-welfare (at the federal level), pre-education department, pre-pretty much anything that assists people in the middle and lower classes of the economic ladder. Smoot-Hawley wasn’t even effective enough under the old system when we had a gold-standard dollar and now this shit is supposed to be effective? Effective how? You’ll notice though that’s where they come in with their bullshit about undermining those programs. Undermine education, undermine health, undermine social safety nets. Coupled with the tariff bullshit and the very inevitable tax cuts for the wealthy, that’s them telling you “we know tariffs can’t pay for all the shit our budget calls for and we don’t care. We don’t want to pay taxes. We want you to pay taxes that will subsidize our businesses so that we can make all the profits and assume none of the risks, but we couldn’t be bothered to give two drops of monkey shit if your kid has a measles vaccine, education, or food to eat tonight. Fuck you, pay me.”
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Hangover pic is the most accurate depiction of this whole thing. Presented as smart, yet it’s brought to you by the same guy that said “ruh-tard.”
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Didn’t say anything about supporting Trump. Said you’d make excuses for tripping over yourself, as you always have.
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Wouldn’t matter because you’d just offer the same ridiculous excuses anyways.
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It’s already there in plain words. And it doesn’t even matter because the point is you attributed to him the capacity to admit to being wrong. The schizo nature about these tariffs? Yeah that has to do with reciprocity w/r/t what sort of grift he can work out of them. It has nothing to do with a measured reaction to how damaging they are to average Americans and the economy. He couldn’t be bothered to give two shits about that, just like he (contrary to what you believe) couldn’t be bothered to give two shits about his deportation policy ultimately being inflationary. Hell, his tariff policy IS inflationary even with the psychotic nature factored in. Markets do not appreciate uncertainty. You know less about your own side of this argument than most of us know about both. Again, the only way he’d take the quoted response you said you “expected” him to take w/r/t inflationary effects of his deportation policies is to first admit to being wrong about them. There’s no way around that. You don’t correct/alter a policy that you think is right, and it’s naive/dense/stupid/foolish to believe otherwise. Seriously, I’ll let you even pick which word you feel most comfortable using. Regardless of which word hurts your fee-fees the least, you don’t have to literally say “he’d admit to being wrong” in order to clearly imply that you believe it. Or to put it another way, if you really don’t believe he has the capacity to ever admit that he’s wrong about anything, why the fuck would you expect him to correct one of his own policy decisions after seeing its adverse effects?
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RE: mass deportations “This isn’t an inflation contributor, and if it becomes one, I’d expect Trump to react to that and loosen and have some sort of Bush era guest worker program. ” The only way that it is even possible to harbor such an expectation is if you believe that fucking clown has the capacity to admit when he’s wrong. Clearly
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@Rex Kramer certainly believes in that belief
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And yet we still have people on this board that believe Trump is psychologically capable of admitting error and acting accordingly to adjust. Fucking naive belief in belief.
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BUT THE PRICE OF BACON UNDER BIDEN!!!
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Still the greatest ass-holing in the history of coaching, certainly when it comes to games that the team fucking won.
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Yolanda Saldívar Denied Parole, Selena Fans Rejoice
hpslugga replied to MrBig's topic in Daily Texan
She is never going to be paroled. Her family put out a documentary series about a year ago and she was still maintaining that the gun, a fucking .38 special, just accidentally went off. -
I mean…let’s just start with that ridiculous 7% cap…
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