Allan Milne Lees
1 min readNov 11, 2024

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I think the picture is actually very clear. Back in the good ol' days the Smoot-Hawley act introduced 6% tariffs on all imports. Economists are uniformly in agreement that this triggered the Great Depression. The creature Trump is promising tariffs ranging from 10% (for "friendly countries") to 60% for those who don't send him suitcases full of cash, up to 500% for Chinese goods (gotta protect failing Tesla, right?). It's obvious that Trump and his slithering cronies will trigger a far worse economic crisis than the Great Depression but hey, no need to worry: the rich will be able to buy up even more assets at knock-down prices, so it's all good. If you want to laugh, we can note that it will predominantly be the simpletons who voted for Trump who will suffer most, from massive layoffs to impossible-to-afford food. Not much of a consolation, but better than nothing as the world collapses around us. Gotta love qualification-free representative democracy for giving us the good stuff.

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Allan Milne Lees
Allan Milne Lees

Written by Allan Milne Lees

Anyone who enjoys my articles here on Medium may be interested in my books Why Democracy Failed and The Praying Ape, both available from Amazon.

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