He is a different #socialist, but still a socialist. Wait till things gets worse... 🤦♂️
JUST IN: 🇺🇸 President #Trump says "instead of taxing our citizens to enrich foreign nations, we should be tariffing & taxing foreign nations to enrich our citizens."
https://video.nostr.build/f985b583897a7b01adbc3bbecd68503e8a56cb4c0f5434a7d6f98911c93d7178.mp4
#tax #tariffs
Late stage
Tariffs generally don’t work. Bessent seems to want to slow play tariffs relative to Trump’s rhetoric. I’m betting Bessent gets his way but we will see what ends up playing out.
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/amp/politics/senate-confirms-scott-bessent-as-treasury-secretary
As an importer who also pays income tax, I am extremely conflicted.
Ideally outcome: countries (all of them) cease to exist at all.
