Claim: Kerry Promoting Increased Foreign Tariffs to Alter Presidential Election

Talon News / GOP USA ^ | March 26, 2004 | Jimmy Moore

[prairiebreeze]

WASHINGTON (Talon News) -- A major taxpayer group is urging likely Democratic presidential candidate John F. Kerry to stop collaborating with the European Union (EU) to impose damaging tariffs on U.S. products being exported from key swing states in the upcoming presidential election.

Americans for Tax Reform President Grover Norquist noted that Kerry has been touting his popularity among foreign leaders in recent weeks. However, Norquist said he was shocked to learn the extent some foreign leaders will go to remove President George W. Bush from the White House in November.

Norquist points to direct evidence of election tampering by the EU in which they are purposefully applying high tariffs to U.S. goods that are received from key electoral states in the upcoming presidential election in the United States.

He added that it appears the strategy by Kerry and the EU is to keep the American economy sagging and unemployment rising.

"It's official," Norquist exclaimed in a press release. "Europe is actively participating in the U.S. election and is collaborating with the Kerry campaign."

Chiding the Massachusetts senator for jeopardizing American workers for the sake of political gain, Norquist sent a firm reprimand to the Kerry campaign.

"ATR calls on Kerry to stop this collaboration now and remove the tariffs being placed on U.S. companies and workers," Norquist asserted.

Beginning on March 1, 2004, the EU started collecting the inflated tariffs on U.S. products made in these key swing states in the 2004 presidential election.

In fact, even higher tariffs will be levied at the beginning of each new month unless changes in the tax law take place.

The Foreign Sales Corporations (FSCs) and the extraterritorial income exclusion (ETI) export subsidies were both found to be in violation of World Trade Organization (WTO) agreements due to a suit brought by the EU.

In response to this, Bush, along with the U.S. Congress, has submitted a proposal to bring the United States tax code in compliance with the ruling by the WTO.

But on Wednesday, Democratic members of the Senate began filibustering the Bush plan, so these increased tariffs will remain in effect indefinitely.

Norquist said the net effect of these obstructionist tactics by the Democrats along with the EU is that it will make it more difficult for U.S. products to compete overseas, cause job losses, and stifle economic growth.

"Coordinating political maneuvers to inflict job losses in swing states is economic treason," charged Norquist. "If Euro-socialists don't want Bush to be President of the United States, bully for them."

Concluding that this attempt by Kerry to win the presidency at any cost is a travesty, Norquist said the level this has been taken to is unprecedented.

"But for a challenger to look to Europe to inflict pain in the United States is taking Machiavellian power plays to a level never before seen in American politics," Norquist observed.

Americans for Tax Reform is a non-partisan group of taxpayers and taxpayer groups who are opposed to all federal and state tax increases.

[prairiebreeze]

First of all, if Norquist would become a Freeper, he'd soon learn,(as we all know) that there is little to be surprised at about the levels the RATS will sink to in order to return to power.

This is part of coordinated liberal strategies across the ocean.

Prairie

[prairiebreeze]

Liberals reaching across the ocean to oust Bush PING-PING-PING!!

Prairie

[kayak]

bttt

[Owen]

This is not news. No one reads this news source but us. Preaching to the choir.

WE HAVE A PROBLEM.

The Dems have arranged book publication as part of the campaign. Clarke was a nobody. No one had heard of him. The Dems orchestrated the invitation from the commission -- probably through a Dem member of the commission -- and also orchestrated the coordination with the publication schedule.

We must not let this happen again. Book Publication lets them define the news cycle. Authors are invited to come on TV and talk about their accusations and then suddenly it becomes news to say "The White House once again came under fire from a new book and its author who say . . . .

It's an excellent Dem tactic and it needs a counter.

Rove needs to be inside the various publishers to see what is coming next. And where are our own books in transit?

[Carolinamom]

Treason comes in many forms, doesn't it?

[kayak]

That it does. With all that's coming to light now, I shudder to even think of what their 'October surprise' might be. God help us all!

[Ham Hock]

What a traitorous SOB.

[geedee]

. . . I shudder to even think of what their 'October surprise' might be.

Worry not. While I agree wholeheartedly with your concerns . . . the panty-waist attack dogs had best look across the table and see who they're playing poker with. They're good, really good. But they're mere garden snakes combined to our guy . . . The King Cobra.

The guy wearing the white hat was raised in a "real" political family and he knows all the tricks. He was reared in Midland, Texas with low-life, red-necked roughnecks like me living on one corner and back-stabbing gazillionaires living on the other, and he's managed to handle himself so far. A tree-hugger from Massachooooooooooookistan with a trumped-up Vietnam resume ain't gonna bother him.

You're right . . . they'll produce some more, bigger whoppers the closer we get to the election. But keep this in mind -- we haven't seen Lurch's Vietnam records yet have we? Why not? Privacy Act? Mmmmm-hmmmm. Ain't no such thing as privacy in a Presidential election. Trust me, if the Dim-Demmers keep it up, anything and everything about Lurch from cradle to now will be conveniently dropped on Fox News' desk -- because they're the only ones with the cojones to run with it. I just smile when fellow FReepers complain that we haven't seen Lurch's records. All in due time, FRiend. All in due time.

I've voted for GW three times so far and I've noticed a trend in EVERY election. He studies his opponent and their tactics and eventually responds in kind . . . when the time is right . . . using a "ten times as bad" formula us Texans mastered long ago.

He can be as nice as an altar boy OR he can be . . .

[geedee]

OOOOOps. "combined" should be "compared". damn brain can't hold a thought for very long at a time.

[Blue Scourge]

If the EU is indeed trying to swing "OUR" elections than this is bordering on a act of War.

[DrDeb]

Your comments just made my night!!! "Nice as an alter boy or . . . !!!!"

Thanks!

[geedee]

Your comments just made my night!!!

Awwwww, shucks. LOL.

Have a good night, FRiend. Worry not, our boy'll come through in the clutch.

[windchime]

Americans for Tax Reform link:
http://www.atr.org/

Wonder how they got the information?

[baseballmom]

I DO have faith. I DO have faith. I DO have faith.....

[goodnesswins]

bump for later

[texasflower]

I've voted for GW three times so far and I've noticed a trend in EVERY election. He studies his opponent and their tactics and eventually responds in kind . . . when the time is right . . . using a "ten times as bad" formula us Texans mastered long ago.

I can vouch for that! He's got things together!

[yoe]

""Coordinating political maneuvers to inflict job losses in swing states is economic treason,"

It is not just economic treason, it is just plain treason! Johnfonda Kerry is a loose cannon in anyone's book and he has shown he cares not a whit for Americans. "Europe is actively participating in the U.S. election and is collaborating with the Kerry campaign." A-la Clinton and foreign money! Send this article to everyone on your list! Get the word out that Kerry and the DNC are breaking campaign law and hurting America.

Freep Rush, Hannity and O'Reilly with this story.

[prairiebreeze]

Please invoke your mighty ping lists on this one. This one needs exposure. Thanks'

Prairie

[prairiebreeze]

Wonder how they got the information?

I don't know. I hope some freeper power- researchers can flesh this out more. Certainly needs to get to the attention of conservative media (the rest of the media is a lost cause of course).

If this is true, it's the most low-down, anti-American tactic I've ever seen used in an election.

Prairie

[prairiebreeze]

"But for a challenger to look to Europe to inflict pain in the United States is taking Machiavellian power plays to a level never before seen in American politics," Norquist observed.

If this story is true, there isn't much difference between Democrats and terrorists....

Prairie