RE: Trumps 30% tariff on imported solar panels
January 30, 2018 at 12:49 pm
(This post was last modified: January 30, 2018 at 12:53 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
@Anom
That's the real irony of it. The rightwing nutters in the US doesn't give a single shit about a "free" market. They want a racket. Rackets aren't free by any sensible description of the word. So OFC -somebody- has to actually do the work of ensuring that the markets remain relatively free in the face of that intense profiteering impulse. That this work falls on people deeply suspicious of market actors is, firstly, pure coincidence..and secondly....entirely responsible.
My suggestion, is that if there are people disaffected by the american "left" handling market regulation..then they should prop up credible candidates on the right. That's obviously too much to ask, and..frankly, does anyone believe that Joe Republican Citizen has any power whatsoever on that count? His pockets just aren't deep enough. Repeat ad infinutum for the disaffected left. Aren't we tired of pretending that any of these people are free market advocates rather than corporate shills? This is an issue over which there is broad bipartisan agreement from the bottom....shuffled aside only by the loyalties of the plebs to their owners respective faction at the top.
That's the real irony of it. The rightwing nutters in the US doesn't give a single shit about a "free" market. They want a racket. Rackets aren't free by any sensible description of the word. So OFC -somebody- has to actually do the work of ensuring that the markets remain relatively free in the face of that intense profiteering impulse. That this work falls on people deeply suspicious of market actors is, firstly, pure coincidence..and secondly....entirely responsible.
My suggestion, is that if there are people disaffected by the american "left" handling market regulation..then they should prop up credible candidates on the right. That's obviously too much to ask, and..frankly, does anyone believe that Joe Republican Citizen has any power whatsoever on that count? His pockets just aren't deep enough. Repeat ad infinutum for the disaffected left. Aren't we tired of pretending that any of these people are free market advocates rather than corporate shills? This is an issue over which there is broad bipartisan agreement from the bottom....shuffled aside only by the loyalties of the plebs to their owners respective faction at the top.
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