I'm really positive about the tariffs. I know they're not good for our economy. Obviously. But they're still good for **_us_**.

On my first trip overseas, in college and literally just because college is too boring, I discovered a thriving black market in.... Blue jeans. People were risking state theft and imprisonment for blue jeans.

Their government had/has a tariff on blue jeans. Because of this, jeans were super expensive, and wearing jeans was kinda like driving a lambo.

So naturally, there was a huge black market for blue jeans. Any time anyone took a trip overseas, especially to America, they loaded up an extra suitcase with blue jeans that they could turn around for something like 1000% profit. Of course, airports checked for it and people got arrested pretty regularly... But they did it anyways.

The **_HORROR!!_**

Bad policy encouraged **_criminality!!_**

Well... People shouldn't abide by bad policy. That black market in blue jeans raised the standard of living, while teaching people a valuable lesson. Without that bad policy, people wouldn't run into a serious question about their character : in recognizing the stupidity of the policy, they must choose - will they be cowards and obey they tyrants, or will they make some small, secretive act of defiance?

All things work to the greater good.

What a harvest we will reap!! A harvest of good people - good by proof of work, confrontation, adversity, and testing ; not by some weak and untested belief.