usually the argument behind tarrifs is that it’ll make domestic production more competitive but since there is no domestic production the position is pretty much just ‘fuck foreigners, lets make everything more expensive’ which is very funny
#unfortunately i think an idea i first heard from ezra klein and matt yglesias is right here
#trump’s tariffs would be economically devastating
#which is why he’ll probably offer exemptions to favored firms that come kiss the ring
#aka funnel money into his family businessessee also: the mass deportations likely never actually sending anyone back to a country of origin, but instead resulting in massive privately-run for-profit detention camps that make a killing brokering free-as-in-enslaved detainee labour to farms and factories (the latter incidentally allowing “domestic production” while keeping things at foreign-sweatshop prices)…
amhrancas 