{"id":43796,"date":"2018-06-13T04:00:23","date_gmt":"2018-06-13T08:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=43796"},"modified":"2018-06-12T18:15:58","modified_gmt":"2018-06-12T22:15:58","slug":"imagine-a-tariff-free-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2018\/06\/13\/imagine-a-tariff-free-world\/","title":{"rendered":"Imagine … a tariff-free world"},"content":{"rendered":"

Danny Chabino<\/a> on what he calls “Trump’s G7 Surprise”:<\/p>\n

In what I consider a brilliant move on the part of Trump and his team, instead of initially discussing what tariffs he would increase if x,y and z didn\u2019t happen or if whichever nation wouldn\u2019t reduce tariffs on whatever industry, he simply raised the simple question of why don\u2019t we just not have tariffs at all? It\u2019s brilliant in the sense that it not only shut down all the anticipated arguments, but also placed the world\u2019s leaders in a position of having to awkwardly defend the very idea of tariffs (and subsidies), and they knew they couldn\u2019t really do that. It highlighted the true intentions of the world\u2019s leaders as representatives of the authoritarian nature of almost every existing government in the world today.<\/p>\n

Now, please don\u2019t misunderstand this article as me beaming with a Trump glow. In fact, Trump knew full well no one would take him up on such an offer. I do believe if they had he would have followed through, but his next moves will be ones that I believe are the wrong ones. He will seek to raise tariffs, which has always done more harm to the nation raising the tariffs than it has done good that nation. Trump will do just as he has threatened and hurt his own country;\u2019s economy with new tariffs.<\/p>\n

What I do enjoy, though, is that all of the world\u2019s major leaders had to essentially admit that they don\u2019t want their people and their economies to be better off. At least not on their own. They want their people and economies to be dependent upon their leadership and their governments. While everyone at the summit knew that the greatest of outcomes would be for all the world\u2019s most powerful nations to exercise free trade, and that this would benefit the entire world in great proportions, that really wasn\u2019t their aim. Their aim was to gain greater power. What an incredible admission!<\/p>\n

When given a golden opportunity to end tariffs and increase freedom and prosperity for most citizens of the world, the world\u2019s leaders instead chose to cling hard to their own designs. The world\u2019s leaders know full well that tariffs hurt their own citizens, but they don\u2019t care. Tariffs have never served the function of creating market efficiency, and they have never helped protect a nation\u2019s economy. Instead, they have always been a means for governments to exercise control over huge parts of their own economies, and where there is control, there is power. Politicians and world leaders seek power. It\u2019s like their drug of choice, and they can never get enough of it.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Danny Chabino on what he calls “Trump’s G7 Surprise”: In what I consider a brilliant move on the part of Trump and his team, instead of initially discussing what tariffs he would increase if x,y and z didn\u2019t happen or if whichever nation wouldn\u2019t reduce tariffs on whatever industry, he simply raised the simple question […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35193,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,84,53,13],"tags":[432,1037,320,1185],"class_list":["post-43796","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","category-government","category-politics","category-usa","tag-diplomacy","tag-donaldtrump","tag-freetrade","tag-tariffs"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/favicon.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-boo","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43796","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43796"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43796\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43797,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43796\/revisions\/43797"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43796"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43796"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43796"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}