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To: impimp
Has anybody seen any sign that Trump is coming over to the free trade globalist camp?

Not very likely.

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

Well, if he really wants to protect American workers, why not 60%, or 100% or even 200%?

Raising a tariff against "unfair" imported goods doesn't create any more jobs than raising the minimum wage would, simply because higher prices--whether imposed on imports or as a result of restarting inefficient domestic production of a product--divert capital from investment into consumption.

It's a temporary fix (the seen) that deprives the nation of new industries and production (the unseen).

Bastiat had a catchy phrase to counter those of his countrymen who advocated protective tariffs:

If goods don't cross borders, armies will.

Put another way, protectionism is an attempt by governments to inflict on their own citizens in peacetime the same kinds of harm their enemies attempt to do (with naval blockades) during wars.

6 posted on 09/02/2016 6:03:16 AM PDT by logician2u
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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: logician2u
For you anti tariff morons out there I have a question; if low tariffs cause off shoring of factories and massive unemployment why wouldn't protectionist tariffs do the opposite?

Screw you anti American globalists...

25 posted on 09/02/2016 8:21:09 AM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: logician2u
If goods don't cross borders, armies will.

That's the same horseshit that was sold to us as to why we had to have free trade with China.

And what happened, instead of the Chinese becoming a more free and open society we became a more controlled, secretive and corrupt one.

The Chinese aren't our friends and never will be. They disdain American weakness and will use it to our detriment.

47 posted on 09/02/2016 8:41:03 PM PDT by Last Dakotan
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