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arwhatevertoday at 6:56 PM1 replyview on HN

Maybe even use the tariff proceeds to provide incentives to those very same domestic industries? (I am not an economist.)


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mindslighttoday at 7:00 PM

If that were seriously on the table, we could have just used the proceeds from having the world reserve currency to do that. Instead, their open plan for that national asset is to squander it.

In general, stop trying to steelman the looters. Sometimes a con artist is really just a con artist.

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