Scott Paul, with the American Alliance of Manufacturers, stated on

[Atticus]

Ali Velshi's show that we should "give Trump's tariffs a chance" because "we've never really tried this approach before". Ignoring, for the moment, his ignorance of US history, if "we've never tried this before" is the new threshold for "stuff we could do, economy-wise", no previous POTUS has ever threatened to hold his breath until he turned blue as a bargaining tactic either.

Just a suggestion.

[lapfog_1]

1. never tried it before???

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smoot%E2%80%93Hawley_Tariff_Act

largely responsible for the Great Depression.

[Atticus]

2. Yeah, I know. That was the reason for referencing his ignorance of history.

But, thanks for the link.

[Hortensis]

3. Big experiments with lots of subjects do offer a

lot of opportunity for observation and analysis. 330,000,000 Americans are a big experiment. Kind of like tossing up ALL the cards Bicycle Playing Cards produces in a year to examine how they fall.

[lapfog_1]

4. if you want a really big experiement... we are also running a chemistry

experiment on the planet right now... dumping untold billions of tons of CO2 and methane into the atmosphere and lets see what happens...

[Hortensis]

5. Oh, yes, and aren't the data just pouring in, and over?