by Lew Rockwell, Lew Rockwell:
Like many of you, I was happy that Donald Trump won the election. Kamala Harris is a committed Marxist, supporter of baby killing, and passionate advocate of the woke ideology. In foreign policy, she would have been guided by the neocons who control brain dead “President” Joe Biden.
But we shouldn’t be complacent. Trump is far from ideal, and we need to do all we can to work against the policies he favors that are inimical to a free society. Beyond that, we need to work for a fully libertarian society, as advocated by Murray Rothbard and Ron Paul.
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Let’s first look at Trump’s bad areas, and a good place to start is foreign policy. One bright spot is that he wants to settle the Ukraine war, instead of supplying the pro-Nazi Zelensky regime with billions of dollars and shipping them American missiles. Even here, we need to be alert to the influence of neocon Trump supporters like Lindsey Graham.
But Trump wants to intensify a trade war with China that could easily become a hot war. He has proposed a 60-100 % tariff on Chinese imports. When he was President the last time, he challenged China’s attempt to secure control over the South China Sea. Here is an AP story on Trump’s China tariff policy: “Donald Trump has identified what he sees as an all-purpose fix for what ails America: Slap huge new tariffs on foreign goods entering the United States.
The former president and current Republican nominee asserts that tariffs — basically import taxes — will create more factory jobs, shrink the federal deficit, lower food prices and allow the government to subsidize childcare.
He even says tariffs can promote world peace.
‘Tariffs are the greatest thing ever invented,’ Trump said this month in Flint, Michigan.
As president, Trump imposed tariffs with a flourish — targeting imported solar panels, steel, aluminum and pretty much everything from China.
‘Tariff Man,’ he called himself.
This time, he’s gone much further: He has proposed a 60% tariff on goods from China — and a tariff of up to 20% on everything else the United States imports.”
Even worse, Trump supports “Bibi” Netanyahu’s genocidal devastation of Gaza. He risks embroiling us in a war with Iran, which could quickly escalate into a nuclear holocaust. He said about Netanyahu “Trump told Benjamin Netanyahu in one call this month, ‘Do what you have to do,’ according to six people familiar with the conversation who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss sensitive and confidential information. Trump has said publicly that the two have spoken at least twice in October, with one call as recently as Oct. 19.
‘He didn’t tell him what to do militarily, but he expressed that he was impressed by the pagers’ said Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-South Carolina), who was on a call this month with Trump and Netanyahu, referring to the Israeli operation that killed Hezbollah leaders with explosive batteries inside pagers. ‘He expressed his awe for their military operations and what they have done.’ Graham added: ‘He told them, do what you have to do to defend yourself, but we’re openly talking about a new Mideast. Trump understands that very much there has to be change with the corrupt Palestinian state.’”
Speaking of foreign policy, we also need to abolish the CIA, the NSA, and the FBI. These agencies have been responsible for military interventions in many foreign countries, and they spy on American citizens.
As the quotes above make clear, Trump strongly supports tariffs generally, not just against China. Tariffs are bad for American consumers. They raise prices on goods consumers want to purchase, and it is no coincidence that practically all economists think they are a bad idea. Perhaps even worse is that Trump does not want to cut government spending. To the contrary, his budget proposals call for more spending than the proposals of the free-spending Democrats. Trump will not end what Dr. Ron Paul aptly calls the “spending mania.” Trump would make our already blown-up budget deficit higher than it now is: “Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump’s tax and spending plans would produce more than twice as much new debt as the plans from Vice President Kamala Harris, a budget-focused think-tank estimated on Monday.
