They Waste Your Time, You Pay the Price

Tariffs are legacy projects for statists who want to be remembered as ‘fighters’ instead of failures. They hijack voluntary trade between free people and turn it into a political stunt, all to get their name in the history books. But here’s the catch, you’re the one paying the price.

Prices go up. Markets distort. Businesses suffer. And all for what? So a president can claim he ‘stood up to China’? So future speeches can say, ‘We protected American jobs.’ They just ignore how many were quietly lost or never created in the first place.

The truth is, no politician can ‘win’ a trade war. The only winners are the bureaucrats and cronies who profit off the chaos. Free markets, actual free exchange between people, don’t need tariffs. Statists do. Tariffs are the smoke and mirrors of a dying empire trying to look strong on the way down.

So what’s the point of all these endless arguments and low-effort memes about tariffs? It’s not really about trade. It’s tribal signaling. Politicians want a legacy, partisans want a fight, and the rest of us pay the price.

And if we just sit here meme’ing at each other, nothing changes. The low-effort posts waste your time while they keep the circus going. Drop the noise. Trade should be free because people should be free.