Maybe Donald Trump just wants to charge China more so he can spend more on himself and foolish, deficit-amassing ideas like a wall that is pointless and low-tech or alienating allies which took decades to make while, financially, in no position to increase the defense budget...which is far too big already. We should be paying teachers, doctors and farmers, people who build worlds - not those who destroy them for profit. Besides, whatever happened to the Republican Party being the ‘small government party’? Doesn’t happen anymore. We should rebuild the government to allow less control by those serving us to affect their own futures (like salaries, pay raises, promotions and elections) and give that power back to the people that put them there - who should still have it regardless of whether they hired a representative. The government we have now is more like ‘SkyNet’ - the robots we built taking over. This will never end well, but it is what happens when you get too comfortable letting others do the work for you and too careless to keep an eye on the machine you helped to build. Let us hope wiser, more ethical and diligent minds will prevail in the future. Those are certainly not what got us to where we are now and there may not be one if we don’t start paying closer attention. For such a good businessman (or President, father, husband, leader, negotiator or other role he seems to incessantly brag about but is unable to demonstrate), Trump sure hasn’t been doing a very good job.

Maybe Donald Trump just wants to charge China more so he can spend more on himself and foolish, deficit-amassing ideas like a wall that is pointless and low-tech or alienating allies which took decades to make while, financially, in no position to increase the defense budget...which is far too big already. We should be paying teachers, doctors and farmers, people who build worlds - not those who destroy them for profit. Besides, whatever happened to the Republican Party being the ‘small government party’? Doesn’t happen anymore. We should rebuild the government to allow less control by those serving us to affect their own futures (like salaries, pay raises, promotions and elections) and give that power back to the people that put them there - who should still have it regardless of whether they hired a representative. The government we have now is more like ‘SkyNet’ - the robots we built taking over. This will never end well, but it is what happens when you get too comfortable letting others do the work for you and too careless to keep an eye on the machine you helped to build. Let us hope wiser, more ethical and diligent minds will prevail in the future. Those are certainly not what got us to where we are now and there may not be one if we don’t start paying closer attention. For such a good businessman (or President, father, husband, leader, negotiator or other role he seems to incessantly brag about but is unable to demonstrate), Trump sure hasn’t been doing a very good job. - In light of current Trump trade policy, it is perhaps worthwhile to review some common sense principles about international trade.The most basic...