Posted on 09/25/2015 11:19:28 AM PDT by Steelfish
Trump Calls NAFTA A "Disaster" Trump on trade: The Republican presidential candidate calls NAFTA a disaster he will either break or renegotiate if he's elected president
Donald Trump wants to rip up the North American Free Trade Agreement as one of his strategies for creating new jobs for the middle class. The Republican presidential candidate tells Scott Pelley the free trade agreement between Mexico, Canada and the U.S. is a "disaster." He says he will either break or renegotiate it so he can enact tariffs that would dissuade manufacturers like Ford from building cars elsewhere that are meant for the U.S. market.
The Trump interview, in which he also tells Pelley his plans on immigration and reveals a major part of his tax platform for the first time, will be broadcast on the 48th season premiere of 60 Minutes, Sunday September 27 at 7:30 p.m. ET.
I think you should be taxed specifically until you scream for mercy.
The rest of us will enjoy our freedom.
Probably just lost your virginity too. Dont worry, they say it only hurts the first time.
He's talking about renegotiating to allow tariffs.
Watch the video (not linked here, but if you google the headline, you'll find it). The whole discussion of NAFTA arose out of a discussion of tariffs. Trump said he would impose tariffs on Ford if Ford built a plant in Mexico. The interviewer asked how he could do that, since NAFTA prohibits such tariffs. Trump said he'd renegotiate or break NAFTA.
Tariffs on cars outsourced to then be sold in the US! Has your standard of living risen in the years since Nafta? Maybe you will feel differently when your job is outsourced to some third world slave country, condemning you to work for slave wages or not work at all, and unable to afford anything but the bare necessities, and your credit ruined, so no new car for you, ever! In the interest of national defense, if nothing else, we must impose tariffs to stop our infrastructure from being sold/sent to third world communist hellholes.
Whenever I see “whenever I see”, I know somebody is about to invoke a stereotype.
Clearly you are uniformed. First of all tariffs are part of the US Constitution, they are the basis of income for FedGov™ and protection of US industries. It is consumption based which is also a good thing. Only a small part of the manufacturing sector is unionized . LESS THAN 10 PERCENT.
The lowered cost of off shore is not passed on to the consumer, it goes to increased corporate profit and the share holders. Many who are not US citizens.
GloBULLism is a catastrophe for the US economy, I hope we go towards protectionism in a big way.
Go Trump go!
What vote of yours? Trump is leading by miles, because enriching Mexico, to our detriment, is not happening on his agenda. No one is for NAFTA, a disaster.
You are a first to defend NAFTA.
LOL OK Whatever...
Talk about unguided missiles.
The companies are US companies but they off shored production to suicidal Asian coolies. So really they are just another import/export companies. Don't worry, most companies will eat the tariff and start to in source production.
“Like it or not, NAFTA is a law, passed by both houses of Congress. It would take a majority of both houses of Congress to repeal it. “
Just like this Iranian nuclear deal, right??
Actually it is.
“The companies are US companies but they off shored production to suicidal Asian coolies.”
BS. Hundreds of millions of Asians are subsistence farmers, and for them factory work is a big step up in pay and conditions. They are free people acting in their own interests.
Funny George Washington signed the very first law passed by the first congress . The Tariff Act of 1789.
That President Washington was a big government guy for sure. /sarc
Yea, rip up renegotiate A-OK....tariffs, however are a VERY bad idea.
You assume that Ford passes on any decreased production cost to the consumer. What a fool you are. Idiot Free Traitors™ sum will kill us all in the end.
By leaps and bounds. Haven't you been to Walmart in the last twenty years?
Maybe you will feel differently when your job is outsourced to some third world slave country, condemning you to work for slave wages or not work at all, and unable to afford anything but the bare necessities, and your credit ruined, so no new car for you, ever!
Remember when your high school teacher said study and go to college?
In the interest of national defense
And there it is. The only real argument the America Only crowd can come up with since all of the economic ones are nonsense. Military necessity. It was the driving factor in all of the Soviet Union's economic decisions and look how it worked out for them.
U.S. Constitution - Article 1 Section 8 The Congress shall have Power To lay and collect Taxes, Duties, Imposts and Excises, to pay the Debts and provide for the common Defence and general Welfare of the United States; but all Duties, Imposts and Excises shall be uniform throughout the United States;
My guess is that you are the ignorant one.
Thank God. NAFTA is one of the worst agreements the US has ever entered into. At least re-negotiate it in our favor.
Cause FR has gone Clinton sock puppet liberal loving
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