Andrew Heaton
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If there's, I mean, you know, going back to the cartel thing, if you really want to lower the cartels, like I would like figure out a way to decriminalize most drugs.
Some economic exchanges, but just pointing out that I want the government occasionally to do things doesn't justify every instance of government interaction.
Hey, Tim, let's back up.
I don't want to do any character attacks here.
I don't want to hurt anybody in America.
Like, I'm a guy in a three-piece suit.
If Trump does 10%, 15% tariffs, the reality is it's probably not going to impact me.
I can take that on the chin.
I think that it's actually going to hurt manufacturing in the long run because it's going to hurt intermediate parts.
It's going to affect how much stuff costs for people that are poor.
I'm concerned about them.
In the short term.
I can make a good faith argument, and I would hope you could concede to me that while I might be wrong, I'm still operating in good faith.
That should be the default state.
But you don't actually agree with that.
There are going to be exceptions to that in the same way that the government shouldn't kill people.
But there are instances where it's going to have to kill people.
That doesn't mean I think that the sheriff can gun down anybody they want.
I'm not terribly bothered by that.
So there is a thing we've got called CFIUS, which is the Committee on InternationalβI can't remember what it is, but basically the Senate has a committee where if there's going to be a foreign entity buying some American industry, some kind of company, it has to go through approval for them.