I oppose Trump's tariff ideas as much as anyone, but liberals, please recognize that "consumers pay the price for higher tariffs" is EXACTLY the same argument used against corporate income taxes.
Dude's mother and 67% of his wives were immigrants.
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What do we want from our jobs, and what do our jobs want from us? And have we arrived at a moment where these answers might be changing? Carrie Sun (author of Private Equity: A Memoir) discusses with ...
This may be an unpopular view, but I wish liberals would stop saying a tariff is "like a national sales tax." It confuses the issue for no reason. Just say "Tariffs make companies raise their prices." People can understand that without the populist anti-tax messaging.
Well yes Mr Lincoln did a good speech but fact check: wasn't just our fathers who brought forth on this continent, some mothers were involved too, and mr Lincoln didn't even mention capital gains tax bands so who's to know if Robert e lee was right
Me to all my grad students: Do you have a dissertation plan? Them: I have concepts of a plan.
Tonight we're gonna party like it's 1899.
In the 1960s and 70s, lefties like Nader et al. screamed about the biased capitalists at the "corporate media." Meanwhile, corporate PR guys screamed about the impossibly biased "liberal media." Describing exactly the same 3 networks and 4 newspapers. Plus ça change.
