The whole world has complained about China's trade practices, intellectual property theft, and currency manipulation. Trump has been the only one in the world to have the balls to do something about it. Yes, it hurts short term but the left would have you believe it only hurts US consumers and no one else. China is getting stung pretty damn hard. Funny how the left claim they want American consumers to buy American and yet when Trump's trade wars force Americans to buy more American (and the higher prices that come with it), all of a sudden the left attack Trump for it.
Let me ask you something.
What if, say perhaps, we continued this trade war until something gave way and American manufacturers started to consider bringing their factories back to our shores?
Do you think we would see a major drop in prices coupled with a flood of new jobs?
Because here is what I see:
1. American companies move more factories out of China and into (A) Vietnam, (B) Sri Lanka, (C) Bangladesh, (D) India, (E) Malaysia, (F) maybe possibly here to America but 90% of those domestic factories would be overwhelmingly automated.
2. Prices not only don't drop, they get higher and STAY HIGHER because those companies would do what they always have done re outsourcing:
(A) Take a nice tax cut because they justify the costs of moving their factories, and (B) simultaneously double dip by passing along those same costs to the consumer.
Now, I know that folks on the Right are fond of talking about free markets and how "enlightened self interest" will guide prices down and spur competition but I argue that self interest has never been enlightened, and can't be and never will be, because self interest is always superceded, usurped, negated, and otherwise bullied into submission by bullies and always has been because HUMAN NATURE isn't as noble as free market gurus wish it was.
No matter how free the libertarians insist they are, there is always someone with more money, more muscle and more guns who will drink your milkshake, eat your lunch and slap your girlfriend around while you take a quick smoke break out on the balcony so that you don't lose it all and get to keep a few scraps in the aftermath.
And there's your "libertarianism" in the cold light of day.
I got mine, screw you.
