When former President Donald Trump was asked about his plan to lower the cost of groceries, he said that he would slap tariffs on foreign food imports.Scott Lincicome and Sophia Bagley of the libertarian Cato Institute, however, believe Trump's plan is "deranged" and they write in The Atlantic that ...
  • ddh@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
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    2 months ago

    Why do average Americans still rate Trump as better on the economy? It’s certainly nothing rational.

  • Ruorc@lemmy.ml
    62·
    2 months ago

    He doesn’t understand the nuances of making policy decisions, so his default answer to stuff like this is to just impose tariffs because that’s all he knows. He doesn’t care to understand and would likely eat the crayons you use if you were to try to explain it to him. He’s just incapable of that sort of mental growth.

    • watson387@sopuli.xyz
      34·
      2 months ago

      He doesn’t understand anything. He’s lived in a completely separate reality his entire life.

  • IphtashuFitz@lemmy.worldEnglish
    50·
    2 months ago

    I’ll slap tariffs on banana imports so people buy domestically grown bananas!

    I’ll slap tariffs on cocoa imports so people buy domestically grown cocoa!

      • CM400@lemmy.world
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        2 months ago

        Every year, I travel the world collecting the best coffee beans I can find. I collect them and bring them back to my home in Minnesota, and use them as fuel to roast the beans I grow by myself on the roof of my building under grow lights.

  • OlinOfTheHillPeople@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    Here’s his VP’s plan:

    “I think we are increasingly in a situation where we are going to choose between one or the other. We’re going to have to get a little uncomfortable on some of these things or maybe you’re going to have to be willing to pay a little bit more for certain consumer goods. We may even have to be willing to attack some of the companies financially that are waging war on the American people.”

    • orcrist@lemm.ee
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      2 months ago

      Hey, that sounds a little bit like anti-monopoly talk, doesn’t it. Crazy how price fixing might be bad for the average person.

      … I don’t think that’s where he was going, but that’s where he started.

  • toots@lemm.eeEnglish
    18·
    2 months ago

    Something belched up thoughtlessly does not count as a plan.

  • AA5B@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    I’d quibble with calling it “deranged”. Illogical sure. Nonsense, even ridiculous, but not deranged.

    His only real play has always been to define a scapegoat and stoke outrage. That’s the point here, rather than anything useful

  • Sludgeyy@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    Hey! USA Avocado industry would be thriving if Mexico wasn’t shipping all theirs in without a tariff.

    But a sable genius once said. “What we have is a thing called the gasoline. We have gasoline. We have so much gasoline, we don’t know what to do. They don’t have gasoline. So why are we making a product that they dominate? They’re going to dominate.”

    This was in reply to the question “How are you going to bring down the cost of food and groceries?”.

    I think you can apply the same logic here. “What we have is a thing called the corn. We have corn. We have so much corn, we don’t know what to do. They don’t have corn. So why are we making a product [avocados] that they dominate? They’re [Mexico] going to dominate.”