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Re:US Administration announces 34% tariffs on China – 20% on EU by olalonde on Thursday April 03, 2025 @11:08AM (#43570854)
Capitalist-anarchists are certainly opposed to tariffs - after all, tariffs are just taxes that expand government influence. Protectionism is a left-wing, big-government policy.
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Re:US Administration announces 34% tariffs on China – 20% on EU by tgv on Friday April 04, 2025 @04:09AM (#43579504)
The goal would be dismantling the state, and hence (national) tariffs, for good. The people behind it are quite well off, and can bear the tariffs for now. And it's not just capitalist-anarchists. This is a cabal of spiteful people with different goals, but some shared ideas about the scale of government, prepared to use as much force as necessary.

> Protectionism is a left-wing, big-government policy.

It isn't left-wing. Just check the US history of protectionism. Or Germany's. Or the France's. Even the UK's. Or even simpler: look at what happened just now. How can you call Trump left-wing?

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