The Road Ahead
Like many of you, I was happy that Donald Trump won the election. Kamala Harris is a committed Marxist, supporter of baby killing, and passionate advocate of the woke ideology. In foreign policy, she would have been guided by the neocons who control brain dead “President” Joe Biden.
But we shouldn’t be complacent. Trump is far from ideal, and we need to do all we can to work against the policies he favors that are inimical to a free society. Beyond that, we need to work for a fully libertarian society, as advocated by Murray Rothbard and Ron Paul.
Let’s first look at Trump’s bad areas, and a good place to start is foreign policy. One bright spot is that he wants to settle the Ukraine war, instead of supplying the pro-Nazi Zelensky regime with billions of dollars and shipping them American missiles. Even here, we need to be alert to the influence of neocon Trump supporters like Lindsey Graham.
But Trump wants to intensify a trade war with China that could easily become a hot war. He has proposed a 60-100 % tariff on Chinese imports. When he was President the last time, he challenged China’s attempt to secure control over the South China Sea. Here is an AP story on Trump’s China tariff policy: “Donald Trump has identified what he sees as an all-purpose fix for what ails America: Slap huge new tariffs on foreign goods entering the United States.
The former president and current Republican nominee asserts that tariffs — basically import taxes — will create more factory jobs, shrink the federal deficit, lower food prices and allow the government to subsidize childcare.
He even says tariffs can promote world peace.
‘Tariffs are the greatest thing ever invented,’ Trump said this month in Flint, Michigan.
As president, Trump imposed tariffs with a flourish — targeting imported solar panels, steel, aluminum and pretty much everything from China.
‘Tariff Man,’ he called himself.
This time, he’s gone much further: He has proposed a 60% tariff on goods from China — and a tariff of up t
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