Subject: Re: Barrons on Railroads and Tariffs
" Nobody in any country believes that the proposed/pending tariffs on imports from Canada have anything whatsoever to do with drug flows. It does make the situation sound scary, which props up the notion that it's an emergency, which in turn props up the justification for doing it by decree."
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WHAT? Rethink it bud, most of us who live here want the borders secure and the drug flow restricted as much as possible.

That does not contradict what I said.
Sure, people want secure borders so illegal drug flows reduced, and good for them. But nobody serious thinks it's currently a material problem for the US coming from the Canadian border, because objectively it just isn't.

There are lots of gut feelings and posturings without any supporting basis in reality. I'm very much against widespread cannibalism, but I don't advocate crushing GDP to clamp down on it.

Jim