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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/28194139
Donald Trump and White House officials walked back a Friday announcement that there would be tariff exemptions on imported electronics.
In a Truth Social post on Sunday, Trump directly denied the tariff exemption announcement.
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“This is really mind-boggling. If this was serious industrial policy, the main thing you want is certainty: ‘Here’s the tariff, it will be in place for the indefinite future, and you should plan accordingly,’” Dean Baker, an economist at the Center for Economic and Policy Research, a left-leaning think tank, said, according to The Washington Post. “Here, it’s basically: ‘Come back next week and see what we’ve got.’ That’s no way to run an economy.”
It isn’t the work of one man or even five or six … it’s an entire political party and all their wealthy backers and supporters who are financing this circus that are either working at this, supporting it, enabling it or just standing aside and doing nothing to stop it.
Stop thinking that this is the work of one powerful person … it’s all enabled by an entire community of idiots that want all of this.
I didn’t say that it wasn’t. I said what it feels like. I don’t want any politics to feel that way. It should feel like there’s an entire organized plan behind it, but it feels like it’s just some people throwing shit at the wall and seeing what sticks, which in itself is pretty shit.