Good essay, Graham. Not sure I agree with you. Tariffs are very old. They were practiced even in medieval Europe by individual lords who charged merchants a duty to sell merchandise on their domain.
What trump has done is unconstitutional. By Article 1 only the House of Representatives can determine any tax or tariff. The Presidents ONLY job is to put all approved legislation into action. He 'thinks' (if you can call his thought processes thinking the man is only slightly above a moron) he did was call an emergency. What emergency? We're not at war. He has destroyed the Federal Emergency & Disaster Agency (FEMA) so there was no help for his base States during the recent tornadoes and floods. His end game is to dispose of Congress, end income tax, and declare himself lifelong dictator. He doesn't really care what happens after his own death - which can't come fast enough to suit me.
Tut, tut, to wish another's death, Fay! How could you?
What you touch on - whether they're illegal or not - is not the world's concern. We have no measure by which to judge the legality of your government's actions. Only you do. We, on the other hand, cannot wrestle with idealism in terms of the legality or otherwise of a foreign government's action. We must simply face up to reality.
I think, to get my own angle on the illegality of political measures, you might care to re-read my previous essay entitled "The primacy of politics".
Good essay, Graham. Not sure I agree with you. Tariffs are very old. They were practiced even in medieval Europe by individual lords who charged merchants a duty to sell merchandise on their domain.
What trump has done is unconstitutional. By Article 1 only the House of Representatives can determine any tax or tariff. The Presidents ONLY job is to put all approved legislation into action. He 'thinks' (if you can call his thought processes thinking the man is only slightly above a moron) he did was call an emergency. What emergency? We're not at war. He has destroyed the Federal Emergency & Disaster Agency (FEMA) so there was no help for his base States during the recent tornadoes and floods. His end game is to dispose of Congress, end income tax, and declare himself lifelong dictator. He doesn't really care what happens after his own death - which can't come fast enough to suit me.
Tut, tut, to wish another's death, Fay! How could you?
What you touch on - whether they're illegal or not - is not the world's concern. We have no measure by which to judge the legality of your government's actions. Only you do. We, on the other hand, cannot wrestle with idealism in terms of the legality or otherwise of a foreign government's action. We must simply face up to reality.
I think, to get my own angle on the illegality of political measures, you might care to re-read my previous essay entitled "The primacy of politics".