The mercantilists in Washington are no longer just targeting China, Europe, and North American partners. The protectionists will not home in on countries that have undervalued currencies. So, pretty much any state that is an exporter will eventually be slapped with tariffs. According to a proposal outlined in a Federal Register notice, the U.S. government […]
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Random Friday: U.S. households hit by tariffs, Daniel McAdams on neocons, CNN embarrasses itself
News Story of the Day: Last year, it was estimated that U.S. households were paying about $1.3 billion extra because of the tariffs on Chinese goods. Now that the U.S.-China trade war has kicked into overdrive, it is now expected that the import levies will cost the American people more than $100 billion a year. […]
TRADE WAR: Tariffs Are Attacks on Property Rights and Freedom
By: Per Bylund Rothbard wrote in the Libertarian Forum (v. 1, p. 184) that “… libertarians, if they have any personal philosophy beyond freedom from coercion, are supposed to be at the very least individualists.” Indeed, libertarianism holds high the rights and responsibilities of the sovereign individual: the right to self and to justly acquired property […]
HYPOCRISY: Kamala Harris pays women less than men, report says
Female leftists are always screeching about the debunked gender pay gap, decrying that businesses are discriminating against women by paying them less because of muh patriarchy. Now one candidate for president wants to penalize companies that pay women less than men. Senator Kamala Harris (D-CA) proposes a plan that would mandate companies apply for a […]
‘THEY NEVER WANT TO LEAVE’: Trump slams military-industrial complex
President Donald Trump does an admirable job slamming the neoconservatives, lamenting on the military-industrial complex, and bashing the previous administrations for starting and prolonging these wars. But then he brings the likes of Mike Pompeo and John Bolton into his administration. What the heck is he doing? Speaking in an interview with the Fox News […]