Our shitting 'president' threatens to play a nasty joke upon the nation and the world on this April Fool's day. Tomorrow, it has been determined, he will announce a tariff regimen upon the entire world.
I'm reminded of the old “Dutch Boy” advertisement in which the Hollander is pouring an entire can of paint over the globe covering it in a viscus mess. Sherwin Williams evidently bought out Dutch Boy for it now uses the artwork sans the caption “cover the earth” but Caesar Disgustus, who is old enough to remember the depiction, has no doubt been inspired by it.
The problem is that tariffs are, like all public policy initiatives, crude instruments.
Tariffs are best applied upon specific industries and are used to protect and nurture home grown enterprises. They can only be imposed if such industries are capable of meeting domestic demand, otherwise tariffs simply become a sales tax imposed on imported goods raising the cost of such goods.
And, since we have allowed the 'suits' to export our manufacturing, nearly everything on the shelves is now imported, such an action, by the most ignorant of current world leaders, will set off an inflationary spiral the likes of which this country has not seen since the 1970's.
Nevertheless, Donald tRUMP, convinced for decades that tariffs were the magic bullet, the act that could solve everything, “the most beautiful word in the English Language”, is hell bent upon the levy.
He campaigned on the issue. He nailed his trousers to its mast and will soon find it impossible to climb down without exposing his fat, ugly backsides. As is his wont, our Caesar Disgustus promised today to make a pig's breakfast of our national prosperity. We shall see what tomorrow brings.
Impeach and Imprison.
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