RE:RE:RE:WOW
Gorilladome47,
First, I don't care that you think I am bat doo-doo crazy.; it's of no consequence.
It is also in part because I am older than Bissett Creek dirt that I have managed to accumulate just a wee bit of knowledge and have retained the requisite modicum of intelligence with which to ensure that I retain the wee little bit of knowledge and accumulated understanding I possess and tend to utilize as often as I breathe.
That being said, what follows is just a little something for you to consider grasshopper.
I am in fact not, as you mistakenly suggest, "hung up on the definition of a tariff..."
I know, and as you have also confirmed, that the "end consumer" and not the importing businesses first having to pay the tarrif, no mater what percentage tariff determined, are going to be exposed to having to pay immensely inflated prices due to the tariff war U.S. policies.
The Peoples of America will either have the capacity to absorb and pay for immensely inflated priced "Made in America" products, whatever products you would be speaking to, or they simply won't have said capacity and will begin the resultant "economic pain" transmitting curtailing of their available spending power.
Since The Donald needs to find the monies with which to stimulate the American consumer patient heart, if you will, this in order to ensure that the economic lifeblood which sustains said American consumer patient remains pumping in a prescibed as necessarily regulated fashion while he figuratively slices of the limbs of said patient, both The Donald's appointed Federal Reserve Chairman and appointed Secretary of The U.S. Treasury may as well become one and the same person; this becuase the policy directives they would each be made to pursue would be so overlapping as to have one incessantly peeing into the other's cornflakes, so to speak, i.e. should they not both be following the President's determined policy.
I can tell you that "big businesses" representatives and the most senior representatives governing the U.S. states within which such big businesses are domiciled simply do not appreciate unscheduled and therefore unprepared for economic debauchery.
The Donald doesn't care anywhere near as much or at all about their unpreparedness, as he does about his ability and the ability of the firends that paced him as their marionette U.S. President to capitalize upon and immensely profit from the carnage quite methodically and therefore incessantly intentionally created.
I digress - not really
While The Donald may think he has others dancing to his tune and entirely disctracted with playing the cards and not playing the man, The Donald should know that collectively 'The Others", whom The Donald is absolutely without any doubt convinced he has completely disctracted and are being seen by The Donald as playing the cards that The Donald is presenting as already having begun to deal before his Presidential term begins, have always known how to masterfully play each so called "elected" and quite timely presented U.S. Presidential marionette, i.e. the man.
You would do well to note "The Others" have already long ago won the comprehensive multiple fronts war being waged and are now merely going about the motions required in leading "the man", the myths and the various far too emboldened presidential marionette manipulating oligarch minions, to whom The Donald is in fact more than beholden (in fact he'd be sitting in a prison cell were he not), to his and their own destruction.
In continuing, you should know that "changing behavior" has it's unintended and far to often not prepared for consequences.
As an example, you may be convinced that you trained the lion out of the lion's kind and quality of "behaviors", this because you though yourself to be more intelligent, more cunning and ultimately more superior in intelect to the lion and the lion's capacity to comprehend or for whatever reason you convinced yourself about.
What you never forget about animals, and in this case a lion, is that sometimes and for whatever reason suits the lion just fine at that instant, the lion reverts back to the behavior inate to such an animal and elects to examine your contents found deep within your carcass, this after the lion relieves you of your ability to breath in one form or fashion.
Unintended concequences have resultant consequences of their own; and history has shown that persons who have developed so much hubris as to forget or falsely and foolishly reassure themselves that they had trained out the nature of the beasts that surround them, well, such persons would expose themselves to the potential being that the beasts would elect to permanently relieve such a person of the ability to breathe.
The Lion certainly employed it's teeth and the beast's quickness and strength in the example case; and yet, we know there are other necessarily triangulated tools which can be immensely efficiently employed to permenently change behavior as well.
The policies of "The Donald" would certainly be able to change behaviors; and yet, it's the unintended consequences which beget intended concequences of their own Gorilladome47