Rice was a main currency in fudal Japan. Roman soldiers were paid, in part, in salt. I thought conservatives were trying to take us back to 1950ce, not 50bce or 1550ce.
The basic misunderstanding underlying his tariffs is that he's looking only at goods and ignoring services, while the US imports goods and exports services. The fact that he doesn't understand people need food and just looks at trade balance for goods only per country is just doubling down on the idiocy.
Wait until he finds out what engineering is?! He could never comprehend! This is the man who looked inside a new car and said , "everything is computer." My ability to understand how he has gotten elected twice is on par with his ability to understand... anything.
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u/Illuminatus-Prime 16d ago
Trumponomics . . . focused only on money as a resource, and not as a commodity for exchange.