More tariffs paid by US consumers

[Dill]

(06-13-2019, 08:24 PM)bfine32 Wrote: Nah, they're just being told to keep you ass at home. 

We're going nowhere and I doubt we will. You assert you cannot gauge economy separate from society and I do. We'll just leave it there

No one so far has said you cannot MEASURE an economy separate from "society," if measure means count the GDP. But you are doing way more than that when you claim the US economy is better than Germany's, or that a middle class person is living in a "good" economy. A coach doesn't call a football player a "good" player just because he records a low time in the 40 yard dash, which can be measured separately from this performance in a game.

Further, Bels and Bpat can support their claim economies cannot be evaluated separately from society with arguments.

You can only assert, and re-assert, they are separate, while evaluating them together. That's not a tie.

But that's where we'll just leave it. Far from the original balance of trade question.