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Ocelot II

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1. I've never understood why they think punitive tariffs will prevent fentanyl smuggling,
Tue Sep 2, 2025, 01:05 PM
Sep 2

or why they think tariffs can correct trade imbalances - or that they even should be corrected. Some countries export to us more stuff than they import from us, but that doesn't mean they're ripping us off, as Trump claims, because although we pay them money for that stuff, we get the stuff we paid for.They didn't steal our money; we bought their products. These were commercial transactions like any other. I didn't even take econ in college and I was able to figure that much out...

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