• hemmes@lemmy.world
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    But Hitler made no effort to reassure the markets, insisting that the tariffs were necessary and that he needed time to fix the ruined country his predecessors had left him… Hitler provided scant details as to how this was to be accomplished. By this point, he had broken even with the tariff cheerleader Feder, and had abandoned most of the action items for developing a nationalist and socialist economy. These items had included increased taxation of the wealthy; state supervision of large corporations; and the prohibition of “new department stores, low-priced shops, and chain stores.”

    Man, this stuff sounds very familiar.

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      Somehow he keeps forgetting about the taxation of the wealthy. I’m baffled as to why

      /S

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      Trumps whole political career has been right out of hitlers playbook. Unfortunately it has never been enough evidence for anyone to care. Even more unfortunately I think it resonates with a lot of people.

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      It’s just a really quick way to start extracting money from the people you’ve subjugated. They will complain, and suck it up.

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      Where? Because compared to this, what Trump is doing is amateurish and half-assed.
      Trump is going half way on half the things, on taxing the rich Trump is doing the opposite, and he is wavering on the other things because he doesn’t know what he is doing.
      But maybe it’s enough, because apparently the MAGA crowd still supports him!

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        Well, yeah - the article was saying “These items had included increased taxation of the wealthy.” They mean things that Hitler’s team planned to do but Hitler backed out of and didn’t do, going full tilt on tariffs.