JD Breen dares to ask: “. . . what are we being freed from”? From JD Breen at jdbreen.substack.com:
Blockading ourselves to set us free.
Atlanta, GA
April 2, 2025
Happy Liberation Day!
Aside from our senses, what are we being freed from?
A properly functioning market? The greatest quality and quantity of goods sold at competitive rates? Producers having to innovate to excel? The ability to buy what we want without giving government a bigger cut?
Whatever deliverance we’re promised was postponed by a day, so Americans wouldn’t think the jokers in charge were playing them for fools.
But this afternoon, at long last, our president will unshackle us from foreign “unfairness”… by building a bigger blockade around ourselves.
Seriously, not Literally
What are the components of today’s Emancipation Proclamation?
Tho’ plans could change before lunch, and be revised again until (or after) details are announced, the Trump Administration will ostensibly impose 25% import taxes on cars and parts… atop the same percentage already applied to steel and aluminum… with comparable duties on countries buying oil and gas from Venezuela.
The president has also intimated he’ll impose tariffs on certain agricultural imports. Specific products and rates remain unclear (of course), but this could tie to the broader notion of reciprocal tariffs.
