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[–] BillCheddar@lemmy.world 2 points 12 hours ago

LOL son, that is not how this works at all. It wasn't true when Reagan made the same argument. It wasn't true when W Bush made the same argument, and it's not true now.

HINT: You're trying to fuck with a global price market by changing things at a local level. It's like trying to fart south to push a hurricane off the coast.