{"id":1719,"date":"2018-03-06T20:47:13","date_gmt":"2018-03-06T20:47:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=1719"},"modified":"2018-03-06T20:47:13","modified_gmt":"2018-03-06T20:47:13","slug":"tariffs-trade-wars-doing-the-right-thing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=1719","title":{"rendered":"tariffs, trade wars, doing the right thing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Trump has just signaled his intention to impose more tariffs. \u00a0Some fear a trade war. \u00a0The book <em>Trade and Income Distribution<\/em> notes that one important trend in the American economy in the past 20 years has been an increased openness to &#8220;..the flow of goods, money, people and ideas&#8221; internationally. \u00a0Read: globalization. \u00a0A globalization America has, so often, taken advantage of in a spiritually detrimental way. \u00a0For instance, with government subsidies and advanced technology, a modern American corporate farm can grow at such volume that it is able to undercut, say &#8212; a subsistence farmer in Guatemala selling to a local market. \u00a0Our administration would focus more on a globalization that promoted trade parity in concert with social justice so we&#8217;re not hurting, but rather helping, more of those on the margins worldwide.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trump has just signaled his intention to impose more tariffs. \u00a0Some fear a trade war. \u00a0The book Trade and Income Distribution notes that one important trend in the American economy in the past 20 years has been an increased openness <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=1719\"><span class=\"more-msg\">Continue reading &rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1719","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1719","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1719"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1719\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1720,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1719\/revisions\/1720"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1719"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1719"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1719"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}