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Are bitcoiners smart enough to see that tariffs are taxes on them and everyone else?

Indeed. They are taxes that raise revenue the same as the other taxes but they unavoidably benefit the workers of America who will see additional jobs and local value-add industry creation.

All things being equal, less taxes is better but after 50 years of globalism and hollowing out of America's middle class and middle fly-over country, I'm into taxes that benefit America against a world of nationalist populists who took advantage of the US in globalism's name to benefit their own workers and industry.

This game exists, we need to play it instead of pretending we're above it to our own disadvantage.

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Dove 11mo ago 💬 1

We’ll see how many companies return. There are many in Mexico, and his demand that they stop the flow of fentanyl is crazy given the market for it in the US. He also will further impoverish the American worker.

⚡A C V⚡ 11mo ago 💬 1

It's crazy that Mexico has ceded the north of their sovereign territory to gangs and criminals. It wouldn't be so hard to stop fentanyl if Mexico fulfilled its responsibilities in governing and securing its territory.

Dove 11mo ago 💬 1

Can you think of an example when prohibition has worked? I cannot. The gangs and criminals are armed with US weapons. Guns are traded for drugs, among other ways. I worked in two methadone clinics. Drugs need to be decriminalized with safe measured doses available. People can and do live their entire lives addicted. And I have helped people who chose to get off drugs.

⚡A C V⚡ 11mo ago

I don't disagree with a very legal and open drug policy, but that's not the problem. The problem is that on the Mexican side of the border, the criminal organizations are in power and no amount of legal competition in the drug trade is going to fix that without the Mexican government having the incentives to secure that area.

It is mostly impacting Americans and their streets, so Mexico looks the other way. It costs too much pain at home to fix. America should have declared these criminal armies a threat many many decades ago. Like other non-national threats, if the local government isn't going to do anything about it, America will just walk right in and do something about it.

Also, no one wants Fentanyl. It is used to dilute the real drugs. It's fake chinese drugs, like other fake chinese products. Why do we want these in America, even if you want legal drugs? We want American drugs, good ones, legal ones.