I figure if we make this the standard and normalized way to refer to these tariffs, then it will really drive home the point to republican voters that THEY did this. THEY are getting hurt by their own party. Because I'm sure right now they're trying to find a way to blame obama, or biden, or hillary, or kamala, or whomever.
Fuck that.
Your goods now cost more because of trump tax. Plain and simple. It was an uneeded and nonbeneficial policy set by trump and no one else, in his obsession with hurting china.
Well I don't fully disagree that china needs to be dealt with, as they're becoming a global powerhouse that threatens to dominate the global ecconomy. I get that. But these tariffs are like trying to kill a house fly with a handgun. Even if you somehow hit the fly, you do more damage to your own home for no reason in the process.
Metrage. Because, you know, it's a country with a normal measurement system
I switch units as appropriate. In a thread starting with an American reference, where I'm writing in American English, I say "footage". When I actually need to measure something, I use metric.