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@nathanu You are wrong. Capitalists do not "rob working people". Workers are paid the market price for their services. It is the consumers, including people like you, who prevent the employers from paying workers 2 or 20 times more. In reality, it is the state, the government with its clients, that robs the people with taxes, inflation, regulation, etc.
#capitalism #taxation #inflation #statism

Vincent Cook: "In his February 3 Executive Order, President #Trump directed his minions to begin planning for establishment of a “Sovereign Wealth Fund” that he originally touted in a speech to the Economic Club of New York last September. The fund would be on the order of $2 trillion, investing in things like manufacturing hubs, defense, and medical research. The order states: "It is the policy of the United States to maximize the stewardship ..."" mises.org/mises-wire/trumps-sl #statism #economics

Mises InstituteTrump’s Slush Fund | Mises InstitutePresident Trump has announced his intentions for the government to set up a sovereign wealth fund. However popular the idea might be, it runs headlong into the

Frank Hollenbeck: "Trumps claims that #America has lost high paying manufacturing jobs to #China because the communist country promotes its exports through subsidies, tax advantages and currency manipulations. The reality is that we should not care what China does. The more China subsidizes its industries, the more its trading partners gain in the abundance of cheap goods and services and, contrary to what #Trump believes." mises.org/power-market/trump-w #economics #tariffs #taxation #statism

Mises InstituteTrump is Wrong on Trade | Mises InstituteTrump’s trade policy is structured on creating scarcity. Scarcity does not help either consumers, or producers that need an abundance of goods to produce new