Well done. Your post is one of the few honest accounts on tariffs in general and Trump in particular.
As a bar owner I sympathize with fellow kindred spirits, but I also have empathy for any small business owner. We will all be affected by this anti-free market decision. But here’s the reality—the other countries needed to be put to an economic decision that causes them even more pain than it will cause ourselves. Every country affected has placed tariffs on American imports. Let’s all hope that this is only temporary and that our pain will be rewarded.
Quality of life matters. He is shrinking our worlds in so many ways. Thank you for so eloquently putting words to that loss. And for caring about the fate of The Mala Market.
To the comments that think that because they don’t drink that 47’s idiotic and haphazard tariff “policy” won’t affect them, wake up and smell the coffee. Oh wait. You don’t drink coffee. Just as well. As was pointed out, Hawaii can’t produce enough of that for everyone in the US which will make their product very expensive. Tea then? Who grows most of the tea the US consumes? Sugar? You’re in luck there. Salt though? The US is the world’s largest importer of salt with most of it coming in from Chile and Canada. Oops. Fruits, vegetables? The US imports a lot; mostly when items are out of season or can no longer be grown because of climate change and water shortages for irrigation. I come from an area of thriving truck farms that depend on lots of immigrant labor for just about every phase of ground to market product. As in so many states that depend on far less expensive immigrant labor, that pool is drying up so crops will become either very expensive or non existent.
So thus Substack wasn’t just about alcohol or an expensive cocktail but about 47’s stupidity.
If the beverages are not available because of Trump's tariffs, it is no different than outlawing those products. My point, however, is that we should all be concerned, even if oppressive tariffs don't personally affect us. The article, not I, was was complaining about products not being available, because I don't use those products.
I don't drink or cook with alcohol, so this doesn't directly affect me. However, that is no excuse for me to stop others from doing what I won't do, perhaps because of my religion or preferences such as not drinking. I know people who drink responsibly. I support their rights.
Pardon me while I put down my glass of Burgundy. Nobody has lost their rights regarding the drinking of alcoholic beverages. While I agree with all the economics in the article, not one person will be “prevented from drinking their way through the tariff war.” It’s a click-bait headline for an otherwise legit economic critique of the tariffs.
Everything Trump touches dies.
Well done. Your post is one of the few honest accounts on tariffs in general and Trump in particular.
As a bar owner I sympathize with fellow kindred spirits, but I also have empathy for any small business owner. We will all be affected by this anti-free market decision. But here’s the reality—the other countries needed to be put to an economic decision that causes them even more pain than it will cause ourselves. Every country affected has placed tariffs on American imports. Let’s all hope that this is only temporary and that our pain will be rewarded.
Quality of life matters. He is shrinking our worlds in so many ways. Thank you for so eloquently putting words to that loss. And for caring about the fate of The Mala Market.
To the comments that think that because they don’t drink that 47’s idiotic and haphazard tariff “policy” won’t affect them, wake up and smell the coffee. Oh wait. You don’t drink coffee. Just as well. As was pointed out, Hawaii can’t produce enough of that for everyone in the US which will make their product very expensive. Tea then? Who grows most of the tea the US consumes? Sugar? You’re in luck there. Salt though? The US is the world’s largest importer of salt with most of it coming in from Chile and Canada. Oops. Fruits, vegetables? The US imports a lot; mostly when items are out of season or can no longer be grown because of climate change and water shortages for irrigation. I come from an area of thriving truck farms that depend on lots of immigrant labor for just about every phase of ground to market product. As in so many states that depend on far less expensive immigrant labor, that pool is drying up so crops will become either very expensive or non existent.
So thus Substack wasn’t just about alcohol or an expensive cocktail but about 47’s stupidity.
If the beverages are not available because of Trump's tariffs, it is no different than outlawing those products. My point, however, is that we should all be concerned, even if oppressive tariffs don't personally affect us. The article, not I, was was complaining about products not being available, because I don't use those products.
I don't drink or cook with alcohol, so this doesn't directly affect me. However, that is no excuse for me to stop others from doing what I won't do, perhaps because of my religion or preferences such as not drinking. I know people who drink responsibly. I support their rights.
Pardon me while I put down my glass of Burgundy. Nobody has lost their rights regarding the drinking of alcoholic beverages. While I agree with all the economics in the article, not one person will be “prevented from drinking their way through the tariff war.” It’s a click-bait headline for an otherwise legit economic critique of the tariffs.