I would like to speak out in support of @realDonaldTrump on tariffs. Donald Trump has recently lowered out trade deficits with the rest of the world to its lowest amount for 33 years according a Breitbart article I had read.
Regardless, Donald Trump has highlighted a real need for the President to be engaged in our trade policy, real time and at a granular level country by country.
Trump initially exposed how even our supposed allies had tariff regimes which were devastating our trade deficits and through that harming our country.
He also showed that the only real way to counter this is not with old trade agreements made years or even decades ago because the speed of commerce is now daily.
Tariffs are tools used by a country to limit the effects of the devaluation of their currency when they have a positive trade imbalance. When a country has a positive trade imbalance then this means they are sending more of their currency to foreign countries while not receiving enough of their own currency. Thus on the world stage there is an oversupply of their currency and as such the value of their currency drops. They need more money from the other country to buy their goods and a new equilibrium will be found zeroing out the trade deficits.
This zero trade is the default when there is free trade and an equal footing. It is also what we should be aiming toward.
The problem is that trade is a Nash equilibrium problem called the Prisoner's Dilemma. Two prisoners are caught and the best course of action is for both to stay silent and not turn on each other. If they do they get a year time in jail each. If one turns and the other does not he will get off with immunity while his partner gets 10 years and if both give evidence then they get five years.
Tariffs work the same way if I tariff you then when the money flows back to your country it is made up when you buy my goods through the tariff you pay. I get my currency back. The problem is the tariff overall reduces the trade and thus GDP. If I can tariff a country and they don't tariff me back then that country takes the brunt of the loss.
By limiting tariffs we increase the world Domestic product. This is Ricardo's theory of comparative advantage. Certain countries have natural advantages in producing products over their neighbors. Coffee is cheaper to produce in Ghana and has a greater quality due to the soil and climate. When there is free trade then Ghana is free to maximize their coffee production because they can buy wheat from places like Kansas.
When any country starts tariffing the other then that natural balance is disrupted. Countries will then be forced to stop producing goods they have advantages at in order to produce goods they need. Overall the economy will decline.
What Trump has shown us is that a President who takes this seriously and focuses on reducing tariffs can create a boon for the United States economy. This has to be managed however with negotiation and agreement and if need be some coercion.
The success of this is being lost in the current media nonsense.
The importance of this, is that this is something every president should begin their administration with a review of trade policy which they should implement and which is corrected on at lease an annual basis. The President should be evaluated by the American people on the success of their trade policy. There is an objective measure which can be pointed to, the national trade deficit. Furthermore, our individual trade balances with any foreign country can be evaluated to show objective evidence of our trade policy in dealing with them.
To this end the supreme court decision, even though it did not overwrite Trump's ability to continue his trade regimen points to a limitation the founding fathers did not see in the writing of the constitution. They lived in a time when wooden ships took a month to cross the Atlantic and trade negotiations took time, potentially years. At this timeframe there was enough time for trade policy to be controlled directly by congress.
In modern times congress has acknowledged this which is why there are laws in place that give the president some authority. I think what we are seeing with the lawfare easily limiting our President is that this must change.
I believe a new amendment to the constitution is necessary. One that alters the control of tariffs from congress to the executive. This should put the congress in the role of evaluating policy, possibly granting them control over tariff money collected but the trade deals and negotiations should be able to be done by the president through an executive order.
Congress could be given some authority overall trade direction but the ultimate authority is with the President and the executive.
You can say to me but this won't be passed at best while Trump is in office and it gives democrat President's this authority as well. I agree. It will give them the authority to do as they wish however it also gives them the responsibility for controlling it and as I mentioned there is a definitive objective measure as to the President's trade policies, the trade balance.
@Timcast I would be honored if you could please address these points on your show.
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@keithellison is mistaken.
Those two Minnesotans were killed by then Lt. Governor Peggy Flanagan, who started a signal channel to encourage activists to engage in illegal activity in follower and impeding law enforcement from doing their job and arresting criminals.
She was helping to administrate the secret group encouraging people to follow around law enforcement tracking their locations on their app.
Her group distributed instructions guiding them in this lawbreaking.
Both were killed in attacking law enforcement based on their unhinged politics.
Someone should correct him to help him not sound like an idiot.
Who the H@## do you think you are you washed up uneducated imposter trolls. {Don't even start anyone with a liberal arts degree after the year 2000 has a negative level of education.}
@elonmusk has done more for humanity than has the entirety of the fourth estate in the last 35 years and there is no argument anyone can make against that.
From the development of viable commercial electric cars, ensuring the availability of a working satellite based communication to furthering the development of the space race to protection of freedom of speech for the American People.
Take you fake, disgusting veiled threats and stick them where the sun does not shine.
And if the DemonRat Netherworld Coalition does get back to power which is highly unlikely, the will have to get through millions of us.
You are not bringing your vile censorship back.
Grow up! You are all deranged underdeveloped four year olds at Politico!
PS: This was the kindest possible way to communicate our concerns to you!
@Timothy06051558@MollyTeachesFCS@DoritoReiss@Yodertoter40@grok I replied to the post that said hey grok riddle me this by someone who may not have even read through the response as the response also included information detracting from their viewpoint.
I have just completed what I believe to be the most comprehensive evaluation of Charlotte NC arrest records in history.
This project has taken me 3 months to complete, combing through over 50,000+ arrest records and mugshots.
I've found what appears to be massive fraud.
Thousands of Hispanics have been labelled as "WHITE CAUCASIAN" in the arrest records... THOUSANDS.
In fact, I found over 500 cases where Hispanics who were arrested more than once... had their "Ethnicity" CHANGED from "Hispanic" to "Caucasian" from one arrest to another.
Horrifyingly, I found HUNDREDS of these "White Caucasians" were actually ILLEGAL ALIENS from foreign countries with ICE detainers.
Perhaps most disturbing...
Many of the illegal aliens who were labelled as "WHITE CAUCASIAN" had already been released back into the public, DESPITE the ICE detainer requesting they stay in prison.
We have a serious problem.
That is not a reason Why! It is a presumption cosplaying as a lame ad hominem argument.
Now you explain to me why a patient, worried about the potential heart risk due to congestion of arteries that has now been proven to be a factor in a small but measurable minority of people who took then vaccine, do not have the right to consult with their doctor to explore other medical options to fighting the COVID disease which for young people under the age of 30 caused almost no deaths.
Then explain to me who is the "selfish Azz Hole"?
Nice! You learned how to use AI at a basic level.
Now use the knowledge you gained from that recitation of facts to explain your argument.
Specifically, if the Amish do not vaccinate their children from Measles and get infection, they might die, but again that is rarer. Those that don't then become immune due to "prior infection" as Grok explains in the first sentence.
Since surviving the disease creates a more permanent placement of antibodies in the blood stream it is actually superior to vaccinations which must be boosted later in life.
So logically Grok just validated the position of the Amish.
It is a fact that Measles is not that life threatening a disease. Even prior to the vaccine and antibiotics and antivirals most people got the disease as children and survived it.
This is a fact. But I guess according to you leftists facts are now right wing propaganda or something.
I am not telling anyone they cannot get the vaccine. I would probably suggest to people it is a good idea.
However, there is no need to force anyone to get the vaccine. None!
You get educated.
Carter greenlit the Ayatollah's takeover in '79 because he was in bed with communists. He turned on Carter and they have been screeching Death to America ever since.
Akmadinajaad went before the US stating it was Iran's purpose to bring about an apocalypse so that the Madhi can come out of the well. Something from Shiite version of Revelations.
They have been attacking our country via terrorist proxies now every year since as well as any of our allies around the world.
They had enough nuclear material to make ten bombs at the point we took them out.
Anyone who thinks that war with Iran is not inevitable is a clown. They engaged in 10/7 to open up another war theater to help Russia with Ukraine. Iran wants the war with the US.
Calling people names is not going to make you intelligent. Fantasizing about CIA plots is not research.
As for Iran, the US is not fighting them. The Iranian people have taken control of parts of Tehran, the merchant sector has shut down, IRGC leaders are being killed by rebels in country without any knowledge of the
CIA or Mossad. And the countries putting boots on the ground to deal with Iran are Iraq, Saudi Arabia and now Great Britain.
The Iranians thought the US would be fighting which is why they engaged after the Nuke material was gotten rid of. Joke is on them. We are only shepherding oil out of the straights and that has started to pick up which is why gas prices at least where I live average 10 cents less this month then the month prior.
The Lion and Sun flag is going to fly over Iran once again!