TRIGGERED!
Anyway I've noticed that liberals prefer to fixate on numbers in a vacuum. "A TWELVE BILLION DOLLAR SUBSIDY to farmers" - the horror! "One percent of the world owns fifty percent of the world's wealth!" They view the size of the wealth pie as fixed, as if even a poor American isn't living better than most kings of the middle ages, and don't consider the full context of the situation.
So about that twelve billion dollar subsidy - what other first, second, and third order effects are involved? I surely don't know them all, but I recall one of the reasons for the tariffs going up in the first place was China's theft of US intellectual property. Some valued that loss at $50 billion annually - almost ten years ago. What have the recent losses been and how will the tariffs change that? I don't expect there are answers to this right now because it's too early to see, and there are too many moving parts.
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