That's the "even if we don't give them money, they'll get their money from someone else" routine.
At least, we won't be directly paying them to terrorize us.
In your economic treatise, you are forgetting the realities of the world are not a friction-free calculus of exchange. Purchases and purchasers do matter. If we refuse, and buy elsewhere, and cut back on consumption, the costs don't "skyrocket", the value drops for the scorned sellers.
As for your "cost of economic growth", you are forgetting that the horrendous cost to our current economic malaise is from terrorism itself, and lack of faith in the administration to do anything about it, brought about by the administration's own chorus of doom, accelerating in the past 4 days.
The irony in your descriptive narrative is that it overlooks common sense. It also fosters a passive, "nothing we can do about it" attitude, favored by the administration.
I don't buy it. |
