Subj : Re: I watched the 'talk'
To   : Mike Powell
From : Borax Man
Date : Tue Apr 15 2025 10:21 am

-=> Mike Powell wrote to DR. WHAT <=-

 >  RM> If you mean about costing the people more, that's what tariffs do.
 >  RM> They make things more expensive for the people who buy them.

 > No.  It makes it more costly for those who want to sell here.  There's a
 > difference.  But people who only studied socialism won't understand that.

 MP> So, wait, you don't think those that want to sell here won't pass that
 MP> cost onto the consumers here?  People who didn't study economics (or
 MP> business in general) might understand it that way, but that isn't how
 MP> it works.

 MP> In a free market economy, like ours, the cost is passed to the
 MP> *consumer*.

 MP> If someone only studied socialism, they might believe it isn't passed
 MP> on but that is because in socialism the government controls the
 MP> economy.

I it saving the *consumer* money that made all the jobs go offshore in the
first place, and lead to the gutting of many towns and communities.  Let the
consumer vote with their wallet, and you will not have a country left by the
end of the century.  Free Trade is not the panacea people made it out to be,
and some barriers are necessary safeguard the nation, and your way of life.

IT seems when it comes between choosing the wellbeing of their own nation and
people, and adhering to some economic ideals, some people still choose the
latter, despite the very obvious decline this brings about.

 
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