The entire purpose of tariffs is to protect industries and businesses and workers in your country. Tariffs do this by allowing prices to rise, signalling to entrepreneurs and investors that putting their money into this area will be relatively safe and provide good returns.
Trump’s tariffs were a good idea, but he is destroying this now by trying to reduce the price of food and allowing imports again.… read more “Tariffs”
Wealth inequality is one of the strongest arguments socialists have. A higher percentage of wealth is concentrated into fewer hands. Why not share that out with the rest of us?
What is wealth? Where does it come from? How did Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk, and Bill Gates end up with billions of dollars?
Jeff Bezos built Amazon.… read more “Is Wealth Inequality actually bad?”
I take for granted the benefits of our free markets most of the time. Right now I am sitting in a big steel building eating a delicious and quite cheap French dip sandwich and chips and apple. It’s sort of a little mall with a bunch of independent little stores. How did this come to be?… read more “The Profit Motive”
All of my socialist and far left friends, what would you think of the adoption of these policies? Rent caps / abolition, communalized department stores, nationalizing businesses, etc:
We demand the nationalization of all businesses which have been formed into corporations (trusts).
We demand profit-sharing in large industrial enterprises.
We demand the creation and maintenance of a healthy middle class, the immediate communalizing of big department stores, and their lease at a cheap rate to small traders, and that the utmost consideration shall be shown to all small traders in the placing of State and municipal orders.… read more “Socialists Policy Platform”
Every single one of the worst dictators of the last century was a socialist – Chairman Mao Zedong, Adolf Hitler, Josef Stalin, Kim Il Sung, Fidel Castro, Nicolas Ceausescu, Saddam Hussein, Muammer Gaddafi, Nicolas Maduro, Kim Jong Un, and Pol Pot. Do a search on any of them to read about their atrocities against their own people.… read more “Every One of the Worst Dictators Started as a Socialist”