Lies First. Why Mr. “America First” Must Suddenly Bail Out a Foreign Economy – Daily Kos

Lies First. Why Mr. “America First” Must Suddenly Bail Out a Foreign Economy.

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It’s important to mention what Trump is “buying” with tens of billion of our tax dollars – >70% of which come from counties that voted for Biden.   What he is purchasing is disinformation: the illusion, for both Argentines and the world, that Javier Milei’s radical policies — mirror images of Trump’s own — aren’t unsustainably failing and collapsing under their own weight.  The bailout isn’t about economic stability; it’s about narrative control. It’s meant to prop up the fiction that dismantling regulations, shredding public protections, and handing national assets to private interests somehow leads to prosperity.

We’ve seen this story before, repeated in miniature across the United States. “Red” states lure businesses by saying, in effect, “come to my state, – you can pollute here for free”, or “you can rip off consumers with less fear of accountability.”   But “blue” state long-term thinking says “no thanks.”  Republicans try to portray regulations, like environmental protection, for example, as useless and unnecessary burdens on businesses, forcing them to pay to clean up their own messes, but over the long-term consumers and taxpayers will pay for those messes if the businesses don’t, if not with taxpayers footing cleanup bills outright, then with people paying through cancers, birth defects, and myriad other issues. Often these costs are far greater than the cost of cleanup would have been if done immediately.  Short-term thinking vs. long-term thinking.  Capitalism knows that pollution isn’t free, they are called “externalities” in economics – it’s simply a question if the cost of it is properly included in the price of the product, or it’s shifted onto other unwitting parties.  Economists know the question is never whether pollution or exploitation is costly — only who pays that cost, and when.

This short-term, extractive mindset is why “red” states consistently lag behind. “Blue” states lead in productivity, innovation, and prosperity precisely because success there depends on actually creating value, not merely transferring it from unsuspecting or unprotected parties. Their higher output isn’t an accident — it’s the dividend of responsible governance that insists the true costs of doing business be accounted for rather than hidden.

We see the same imbalance in how the federal government redistributes resources: blue states, which generate the bulk of the nation’s wealth and pay the lion’s share of taxes — a gap widened further by Trump’s 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act — continually subsidize red states that take more from Washington than they contribute. The math is clear: those who invest in regulation, education, and sustainability are increasingly paying for those who neglect them.

Meanwhile, the social fallout from that neglect doesn’t stay contained. Red-state policies that slash safety nets, suppress wages, and erode mental-health care help create homelessness — while blue-state cities bear the visible burden of trying to manage it.  Those fleeing poverty or seeking help gravitate toward the very places that still try to provide assistance.

Trump’s Argentine “bailout” fits perfectly into this pattern. Just as he sold Americans on trickle-down fantasies that left working families footing the bill, he now sells the world on the myth that libertarian shock therapy can revive an economy already buckling under inequality. The goal isn’t to stabilize Argentina — it’s to stabilize the illusion that Trump-style economics works anywhere at all.  This isn’t some new foreign policy benevolence from Trump, it’s Trump doing what he always does, protecting his lies.

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