No, protectionism is not good. I'm going to attempt to try and show you why.

Protectionism doesn't really protect much, except the jobs of the workers in specific industries - which isn't a good thing. It doesn't help consumers, since free trade contributes to consumer surplus which is basically the difference between the cheapest product and its more expensive iteration. If you put tariffs on the foreign products to make them more expensive, you're reducing the surplus and thus harming consumers. It doesn't protect the productive capacity of the industry either - just shelters it from global competition. People always are wondering how to stop monopolies from developing, well, newsflash: free trade is literally the best cure.

Economists are unanimous on the benefits and necessity of free trade.

Now then, one which is a little more controversial. Corporation tax. The data, as I've said, is dubious at best but generally corporate tax seems to harm workers more, and thus they have more to gain from reductions in corporate tax. Now, it could be that you're not necessarily a marketeer and just incredibly pro-business, supporting the entrepreneurs in their endeavours to crush the soul of the poor proletariat, but I don't think you're that much of a sperglord. As to how much corporate taxes actually harm workers wages, well it's thought that they pay around 60%.

I don't know where you get this bollocks that firms have to pay the American government for the privilege of doing business in America, but it's strikingly authoritarian. Surely consumers should be deciding who to do business with?

Even though I think the slightest indication that it hurts workers should be enough, I'll add another point free of charge. Taxes on corporations (since corporations aren't people) have a much higher deadweight loss than income or property taxes, and if necessary, could probably be replaced by a land value tax.

All right, I'm done.

You don't have to take it personally. Although I'm a bit surprised you thought that I was only talking about myself when I said that unskilled people shouldn't be able to make decisions. To be fair, you're not really that unskilled seeing as you probably spend hours reading up on economic stuff.

I'm not taking it personally, it's just irritating to me when people - especially you - stifle discussions and opinions based on uncontrollable things like age. It's PSU-tier bullshit.

Still though, economics is more philosophical in my eyes and many of its constituents seem to have a political bias to redistribute the wealth around the already wealthy more so than those in need.

Well are you basing that off what economists say, or what politicians do? I assure you, there's little correspondence between the two.

>meta
>little to no college experience
>little to no real world experience
>thinks his econ opinions matter

top fucking kek

I just finished my first year of college.

I don't know where you get the idea that I think my opinions matter to anybody except me. Not too long ago, you and I had a great conversation regarding the EPA. I don't talk about these things for anybody else's benefit but my own, because they contribute to my interests and to my aspirations. If you want to get up on your high horse, which is what you're doing no matter how much you try to profess your own ignorance, and talk down to people for trying to develop their own understanding and insight, then fine.

But I'm going to ridicule you and call out your arrogance when you do it.

Let's all be honest and admit it's Kinder. The guy still tries to pass of as a libertarian while supporting protectionism and corporate taxes.

That may be true, Door, but Jews control the financial system.

Juicy Jacqulyn.

Figure 3-1 plots out the six output combinations that result from varying the allocation of the workers in table 3-2, thereby graphing all your productive possibilities.

All righty then

>tfw it's a win-win situation

On their homepage, an article about the rise of militant homosexual fascism.

God save the Queen.

oh christ you're all cunts

Molag Bal.

Give us her/his FB.

No way, I actually like them.

I just did; I genuinely felt a rush of adrenaline when I saw who it was.