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To: logician2u

“He mistakenly believes a 30% tariff will “protect American workers.”

Someone forgot to tell Reagan that. Harley is still here because of a protective tariff at a rough time. Reagan also instituted a large tariff when Japan started dumping electronics here.
And somebody forgot to tell our founders who funded the government with tariffs our first 100 years until the progressives took root.
Modern “free traders” are not the conservatives they claim to be. Their loyalty is to the business world globally, not to a nation state called America.
To them America is only a means to an end.


10 posted on 09/02/2016 6:19:43 AM PDT by DesertRhino (Dogs are man's best friend, and moslems hate dogs. Add that up....)
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To: DesertRhino
Worth repeating:

Modern “free traders” are not the conservatives they claim to be. Their loyalty is to the business world globally, not to a nation state called America. To them America is only a means to an end.

PS: "I'm a pimp" is an attention whore.

27 posted on 09/02/2016 8:23:56 AM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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