[minraws]

Personally I can understand tariffs on high end goods but taxes on low-end goods or raw materials is insane. Any country doing it has hobbled it's industry for decades and some might prove that they don't work even if you keep these tariffs on for centuries...

But politicians will politic what can we do huh... Really feels like no side, opinion or thought of every day folks matters anywhere.

[K0balt]

I believe it was MIT that ran a study a couple of decades ago that proved that people were unable to influence policy through voting because the effectiveness of lobbying put the vote inputs below the noise floor?

[bluefirebrand]

Yup.

Our votes basically don't matter because our democracy is captured by lobbyists