Originally Posted by
MartinAOA
What a move Donald! Milton Friedman/Ronald Reagan must be turning in their graves...
Why? Under Reagan: US debt skyrocketed (he managed to triple it), we had the savings and loan crisis (bailing out private insurance companies with tax payer money), government spending went through the roof, he supported apartheid South Africa, death squads in El Salvador etc - and the Americans (and European politicians, to be fair) still consider him to be the hallmark of freedom, libertarianism, capitalism, free market etc. So the trade tariffs are perfectly in line with this sort of thinking.
It's all talk and no show: we have a system of corporate welfare where the CEO's of Boeing, Airbus etc will preach about how high taxes are killing the 0,001 % and at the same time hold their hand out for the taxpayer money.