Never Trust A Politician

by Paul Jacob, Contributing Author: One of my to a greater extent than persistent critics on this site asked, final week, why I mightiness believe anything the electrical flow president says — considering all the lies.

For reasons of decorum I won’t repeat his exact wording.

The strange matter nearly the comment was non the vulgarity, though (unfortunately). It was the stance that I was relying upon belief inwards Donald Trump’s veracity. The whole betoken of my commentary regarding Trump’s treatment of merchandise as well as unusual policy was to read betwixt roughly lines.

I endeavour never to believe anything . . . er, everything . . . whatever pol says.

In Donald Trump’s case, though, at that spot are lies as well as at that spot are fictions as well as at that spot are exaggerations. And corkers . . . as well as “negotiating gambits.” Separating the wheat from the chaff from the grindstone is non ever easy.

Based non alone on roughly of what he says, simply equally good on results-thus-far from the European Union negotiations, Trump’s stance of “fair trade” appears to live on multilateral costless trade. But he has chosen a bizarre method to larn there: the threat of high-tariff protectionism — which inwards the past times has led to multilateral protectionism, non costless trade.

Trump sees everything equally a contest. Trade isn’t a challenger equally such. It’s win-win. But merchandise negotiations are contests. And Trump’s game of chicken is dangerous.

Regarding unusual policy generally, though, he seems to live on playing a to a greater extent than familiar game: we tin outspend everybody. The recent growth inwards Pentagon spending is bigger than Russia’s annual armed services budget!

So, who pays? Americans in

1. higher taxes and
2. the consequences of massive debt, equally good equally in
3. the higher prices from his tariffs.

That’s awfully daring of him. For us.

This is Common Sense. I’m Paul Jacob.
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Paul Jacob is writer of Common Sense which provides daily commentary nearly the issues impacting America as well as nearly the citizens who are doing something nearly them. He is equally good President of the Liberty Initiative Fund (LIFe) equally good equally Citizens inwards Charge Foundation. Jacob is a contributing writer on the .

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