This is an absolute hoot. All the horror stories about how the left wants America to be a socialist society and then trump does this stuff.

[bongsaway]

CEOs told us they still believe in the promise of the U.S. and its capitalist system, but it’s hard to ignore the Trump administration’s drift toward a quasi-socialist statism, seizing ownership from private shareholders, dictating staffing, and selectively blocking moves into strategic markets based upon politics and kickbacks. Nearly three-quarters of CEOs surveyed said they were confident that U.S. free-market capitalism can compete with China’s socialist market economy in the global AI contest, and they expressed a near-unanimous discontent as the Trump administration has veered away from the capitalist system.

From the original thread posted by tangonocash. Well trump supporters, any thoughts about how the ceo's think?

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/behind-closed-doors-top-ceos-113000828.html

 

[aociswundumho]

Two-thirds of the CEOs surveyed at our event said that U.S. tariffs have been harmful to their businesses. They estimate that 80% of the tariffs have been shared equally between domestic firms and U.S. consumers, with the remainder shouldered by foreign counterparts. Businesses have attempted to limit the cost of tariffs from being passed on by rerouting supply chains, reworking operations, instituting hiring pauses, or administering large-scale layoffs. But they have limited options left as inventories built up before the tariffs took effect continue to be depleted.

It's not just tariffs. Subsidies are just as bad, but the cost is easier to hide.

The real lesson here is that idiot politicians should not be directing the economy.

One CEO of a major U.S. manufacturing company explained to the group: “If the U.S. government wants to help protect certain industries, they need to help those industries be successful.

Wrong. You don't want the idiot government picking winners and losers. That's a job for consumers.

 

[Mr Person]

They must just be stoopid Trump haters. The guy who bankrupts casinos knows business best! All Heil Trump!

 

[Questerr]

It's not just tariffs. Subsidies are just as bad, but the cost is easier to hide.

The real lesson here is that idiot politicians should not be directing the economy.



Wrong. You don't want the idiot government picking winners and losers. That's a job for consumers.

Indeed. Protecting domestic industries is always terrible, even if they are needed for national security. If free market corporations want to move all national security related production overseas and then those countries cut off our access, we should just lay down and die as a nation. It’s what the market demands.