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The whore media is doing its best to misrepresent the tariff issue and to cause hysteria that causes stock market volatility and fears of world recession. One of the anti-Trump propaganda ministries that poses as financial media went so far as to claim that Trump has caused a “regime shift whereby US Treasuries are no... Read More
Americans have become so accustomed to living under tyranny that they are probably incapable of recognizing tyranny. Once upon a time, April 15 was the annual day of infamy. It was the day you had to pay your income taxes. Americans have been subjected to a tax on their working lives for less than half... Read More
The tariff controversy is being colored in the most scary ways possible, because the Democrats, media, and ruling establishment want rid of Trump. It is also important to understand that tariffs are not the only way to limit imports. There are other means, such as quotas. Quotas on imports into the US of Japanese cars... Read More
It is not a full quarter as his inauguration was 20 days into it, but it is the first quarter of 2025. How does it look? Perhaps I can put it this way: a lot of good initiatives undertaken in a haphazard way that could limit their effectiveness or even result in failure. I will... Read More
Prior to 1913 the US government was financed by tariffs. It was under tariffs, not free trade, that the United States industrialized and became a manufacturing nation. Indeed, the Union invaded and destroyed the Confederacy in order to impose the Morrill Tariff on the South that enabled the North to industrialize. The North could not... Read More
It seems the tariffs were a ploy to get Mexico and Canada to defend our borders from their sides against the entry of drugs and immigrant-invaders. Government corruption The corruption–indeed, anti-Americanism–that has come to light in the FBI, CIA, USAID, DOJ, and assuredly everywhere else in government is extraordinary. The US government has not only... Read More
The US will impose 25 percent tariffs on Mexico and Canada, and 10 percent on China, the Trump White House said. The “tariffs” in reality are taxes imposed on imports of foreign produced goods, including the offshored production of US corporations of goods and services sold in the US. If the tariffs are paid by... Read More