Adam Posen
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first heard Aug 2025
last heard 1 Sep
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and said, you gotta be kidding me, because no one wants to write down a list.
Because once you write down a list, then you're annoying certain people and excluding others.
And if you're the defense department, you wanna include as many things as possible.
And you know the general dynamic of how these things go.
So I don't think the right response is anxiety.
I think the right response is
Yeah, let's take this seriously.
Let's act like bloody grown-ups and actually set up a policy process that deals with this and let's
Do the spending and even to go back to the international side, go to our specific allies and say, again, it's like raising taxes on a specific thing where you're tying it to a user fee or on the insurance.
I'm raising your premiums not threefold and threatening to leave.
I'm raising your premiums for 25%.
And if you put a fire detector in your house, I will only raise it twenty.
Go to Germany, go to Japan, go to Korea, go to the Netherlands and say, in the fact, I'm raising your premium.
I want you to spend this much more on defense.
But if you chip in specifically on this list.
of military sensitive equipment, I won't ask for as much.
No.
Sorry, you want more?
Um I mean look, again, because of the nature of tariffs, which are a tax.
Which are a distortionary tax on the narrow part of the tax base that has bad distributional effects.
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