I assume you live somewhere where the police can get to the scene the usual several minutes later and find "a random guy who sprayed my toy".

What's even more amazing is that the police in the place where you must live, actually care.

Of course:

1 - Tax Chinese items. -> Chinese items go up in price.
2 - Lower general tax with the benefits generated by (1) -> everyone has more money.

[However one must take into account that the money distributed by (2) is the same as the one generated by (1). Therefore]

3 - If an individual buys Chinese items for an exact value such as the tax (1) of those items equals the increase (2) of that individual's money, he ends just as rich as before both (1) and (2).

[However]

4 - If an individual buys more than those exact balance Chinese items, he'll be poorer, and if he buys less, he'll be richer. (as they'll pay for, respectively, a greater/smaller share of the the tax production while getting the same reduction)

[Also]

5 - Chinese items are cheaper than local items, otherwise the problem wouldn't exist in the first place.
6 - Poorer people will have a tendency to buy cheaper (both in price and quality) items because they are poor.

[In conclusion]

Poorer people will have a tendency to buy more Chinese items (6) and will thus become even poorer because of (4).
Richer people will have no need to buy Chinese items (6) and will thus become even richer because of (4).

Of course they'd both be only microscopically richer or poorer, but it's the accumulation of microscopic differences that create the gigantic gap.

So that every american has either:
- less things.
- a higher salary.

Oh, but the money goes to the government, so you can lower general taxes! which gets:
  - A little less money for those who must buy cheap Chinese products.
  - A little more things for those who buy more expensive products.

Great result.

Taxes are a funny toy.

I'm not sure. Even a few hospitalizations and the panic of having to run from a poisonous gas might be sufficient if accompanied with an anonymous message of "if bullying doesn't stop, the next attack will kill every single one of you."

So, the classic win-win-win-lose a kidney situation.

*: the third win is either for the happy recipient of a healthy kidney or the considerably less happy customer who tastes the new "meat doughnut".

China? Tempests on the other side of the world?

It's clearly a quantum weather butterfly

That's two out of three, you'll have to be more specific.

...before the kids learn that bombs or poison are safer than guns.

What truly scares me is the progression. Soon we'll have a Columbine-like event but with chlorine, or an infected water supply, or a home made explosive device, or some other horror.

He'll either:
  - Go Columbine.
  - Learn to cope.
  - Pay an illegal immigrant $100 to stab the bully in the kidney.

The third option is the safest one as long as he's smart enough to find a way to not leave a trace about the contract.

I'm not sure which option produces a better society as a result.

It starts before that. You must first suppress the knowledge of history by underfunding teaching institutions and manipulating curricula.

Only when the people are ignorant of their past can you pull such ridiculous capitalist dictatorships without opposition.

Ignorance is the one and only true enemy. Trying to convince the ignorant is a losing strategy, teaching the next generation is the only correct first step.

Well... there are "technical problems." and there are "TECHNICAL PROBLEMS!!!! RUN! RUN FOR YOUR LIFE!"

Think of the male periods!

Actually no, as you'd know if you had studied the subject, the law does not apply to the police.

As a mnemonic rule, imagine they were oddly dressed politicians, or very humble rich people.

I...

Seriously?

Dear gawds have we gone down the drainer for something like that to be even imagined as a serious answer. Medics protecting humanity by keeping the secret that everything is a placebo? ffs... It's far fetched even for SyFy.

Unless researchers are in on the conspiracy. They all know there's no such thing as "medicine", only placebos. But they have to protect humanity from such knowledge.