Trump tariffs cause Ford to order layoffs

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  1. dagosa

    dagosa Well-Known Member

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    At the very exclusion of evryother ‘ism “ we practice.
    You do understand that the public library is a form of socialism. As is SOCIAL SECURITY, Medicare, infrastructure etc.
     
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    no idea what you are trying to say. We understand capitalism through reference to examples like East/ West Germany wherein we see that it produces 10 times higher living standards. 1+1=2. Why do I always feel like I am talking to a kindergartener?
     
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    no!! socialism is when govt owns controls or manages major industries, not when it runs a library or snow plow.
     
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    no one disputes that so why mention it as if it is your great discovery???
     
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    That's because you don't understand economics. It's simply.not possible understand economic outcomes in capitalism without reference to coercion.

    You're comparing capitalism with state capitalism. Oops
     
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    the pure beauty of capitalism is that there is no coercion. Everyone is free to walk away unlike libcommieism wherein a Nazi bureaucrat dictates your instructions at gunpoint
     
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    the more capitalism you have the richer you will be. And?? This is why for example Europe lives with 1% Eurosclerosis while the more capitalist USA lives with 4.2% and a 40% higher standard of living. 1+1=2
     
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    You continue to make silly comment. Take the Nazis. We know that capitalism continued. It's discussed in Buchheim and Scherner (2007, The Role of Private Property in the Nazi Economy: The Case of Industry, Journal of Economic History, Vol 66, pp 390-416)
     
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    Impossible of course since libcommie socialist govt controlled the Nazi economy. According to our genius founders monarchists Nazis socialists etc were just stupid identical statists with slightly different rationales. Do you understand? You're certain that you're a good statist-right?. All statists have the same idea about themselves, and then 100's of millions get killed!
     
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    Your position is based on the idea that you can reinvent political economy to fit an immature binary right wing outlook. You cannot. I didn't refer to opinion, I referred directly to the scholarly research in economic history...

    Buchheim and Scherner (2007, The Role of Private Property in the Nazi Economy: The Case of Industry, Journal of Economic History, Vol 66, pp 390-416)
     
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    If it weren't impacting the price of cans of craft beer I might be ambivalent.

    It's quite the exercise in cutting of one's own nose to spite their face. Really sticking it to those 'libcommies' by raising the price of domestic goods, that'll show em!
     
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    I wouldn’t worry much as a fellow beer drinker. At 1.7 to 10 cents a can, aluminum in a can of beer is much less affected. . Going up 20% would be unrecognizable compared to the price if the ingredients of the beer.,.
    Or the aluminum by weight used in a truck.
     
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    Liberals blindly and thoughtlessly hate Trump which is why despite being asked 23 times this lib cant say how he would encourage China to switch to free trade!!
     
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    there is libcommie research and Friedmans's research!! 1+1=2
     
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    Not reinventing anything. Our genius Founders provided only for freedom and capitalism, not statism. You can quibble about the ultra trivial differences between Nazis statism and non market socialist statism if you like wasting your time lost in old world nonsense.
     
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    You abuse the most basic terms; you rely on the childish nonsensical; and you construct a make-believe that ignores economic history. That isn't an approach that celebrates individualism. It is one reliant on a nationalist binary that ignores that individualism.
     

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