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Duncanpup

(14,293 posts)
Fri Apr 11, 2025, 04:09 AM Apr 11

Just read this on twitter the secret word of today.

Is Tarriffying.

Yet don’t worry this will not be like 1828 or 1929 they’re saying. Because we’re all gonna be rich under trumps economic policies.

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Just read this on twitter the secret word of today. (Original Post) Duncanpup Apr 11 OP
A chicken in every pot! Mopar151 Apr 11 #1
Pretty soon... Hugin Apr 11 #2
Chicken pox in every house! Hekate Apr 11 #4
Brilliant! Hugin Apr 11 #6
I am ready for any pandemic. Duncanpup Apr 11 #7
"trumps economic policies": Reaganomics + chainsaw William Seger Apr 11 #3
"trumps economic policies": Reaganomics + chainsaw + lobotomy. Hugin Apr 11 #5
McKinley, who got the "Gilded Age" tariffs in place, said it was his greatest error, the thing he regretted most. . .nt Bernardo de La Paz Apr 11 #8
1828... A Badger Apr 11 #9

Hugin

(36,034 posts)
2. Pretty soon...
Fri Apr 11, 2025, 04:40 AM
Apr 11

People will be picking a chicken in a cage on their way into a KFC like lobsters from a tank in an upscale restaurant.

Duncanpup

(14,293 posts)
7. I am ready for any pandemic.
Fri Apr 11, 2025, 05:00 AM
Apr 11

As I’ll place a sock full of cheese over our front door and wear crystal bracelets.

Hugin

(36,034 posts)
5. "trumps economic policies": Reaganomics + chainsaw + lobotomy.
Fri Apr 11, 2025, 04:49 AM
Apr 11

So short sighted, it’s backwards.

Bernardo de La Paz

(54,741 posts)
8. McKinley, who got the "Gilded Age" tariffs in place, said it was his greatest error, the thing he regretted most. . .nt
Fri Apr 11, 2025, 05:49 AM
Apr 11

A Badger

(8 posts)
9. 1828...
Fri Apr 11, 2025, 06:39 AM
Apr 11
https://billofrightsinstitute.org/essays/the-nullification-crisis

"The Nullification Crisis of 1832-1833 began with the passage of the Tariff of 1828 (better known as the Tariff of Abominations) which sought to protect industrial products from competition with foreign imports. ...
"[...]
"Although protective tariffs were not new, the high tariff rates were. The rate under the Tariff of 1828 was nearly 49 percent. ...
"[...]
"Calhoun asserted states had the right to decide on the constitutionality of protective tariffs and to reject federal laws within their borders. He viewed the United States as a partnership of sovereign states, in which the federal government acted as an agent to achieve ends narrowly defined in the Constitution. For Calhoun, therefore, sovereignty originated in the states, and because of this, the states retained the right to act in their own best interests, even if that meant superseding federal law.
"[...]
"The Nullification Crisis had serious long-term repercussions and ultimately laid the ideological and political groundwork for the secession of southern states thirty years later. [...]"
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