Do I get welfare (24%)? No
Do I use health (20%)? No
Do I earn pensions (13%)? No
Does UK give me public education (12%)? No
Did I need any public borrowing (6%)? No
And neither I intend on leveraging these services despite living in UK.
Therefore I can continue using "They", "The parasites", "Useless welfare recipients"
You: Pay 40%-50% of your hard earned salary, get nothing in return, for people you don't know, and you know they hate you and are completely ungrateful.
Girls are victims. They need help to be free of the oppressor. If they don't respond to the market price signals, is not that they don't care, but an invisible oppressor hand is holding them back.
"The US strong protectionism is not through tariffs but through tax incentives, targeted investments hidden as national security contracts and things like "buy american" acts."
what fraction of GDP is that? 1-5%?
Europe semi public enterprises have a much bigger weight. Banking, energy, postal services, transport, telecommunications were until recent national monopolies and protecting domestic champions is still a matter of national interest.
Trade balances aren't really a good measure of who is winning and losing. The more trade, the bigger the welfare gains. Shutting trade in order to close a trade deficit is bad policy. I understand that Trump uses that threat in order to get more favourable terms for the domestic producers, but I am sure he's aware of the mutual damage of blocking trade altogether.