Government by Pyromania

Trump will keep destroying things until we stop him. It's his nature.

You don’t need to know anything about economics to grasp how harmful all of this has been. No Keynes, no MMT, no nothing. Common sense will get you there.

Imagine you’re an American business owner. Big or small, it doesn’t matter. One day, you learn that a product you sell—or a product you need to make a product you sell—has just been tariffed—taxed, that is—up the wazoo. The tariff is so high that your business is no longer viable. The President of the United States is telling you, simultaneously, that the tariffs are forever and that they’re temporary.

That’s very bad. What will you do?

Some believe this is happening because Trump thinks people like you will now start selling goods made in the US. Let’s explore that theory. Let’s say you decide to start a new business, one that doesn’t rely on foreign suppliers. You liquidate your collection of Asian Art and you buy a collection of American art. You rename your Asian Art Emporium the American Art Emporium. You order new signs, new bu…