Everyone who supports Free Trade has a friend in Barack Hussein Obama. Free Traders support Obama
And US gets screwed again...no mention of EU removing VAT on US goods...which is a tariff on US goods
Free Trade is not a conservative idea...Obama does not support anything conservative
Free Trade is straight out of the progressive playbook. If we’re going to have truly unfettered trade, I’d rather it be with Europe than Asia. But we’re not going to have “free trade”, we’re going to have trade terms set by our trading “partners” with the aim of further destroying the US middle class.
Freedom of Association is a Conservative idea, and Free Trade is merely Freedom of Association applied to whom you choose to trade with.
Obama would love tariffs. Tariffs would give him the ability to choose winners and losers in the domestic marketplace, allowing him to enforce unionization and the rest of his whacked-out agenda
If you handed tariff power to the current administration then your most important competitive act wouldn't be to work better, faster, cheaper - it would be to lobby Obama for interventions that protected your company's business.
The fact that you would willingly impose tariffs on your countrymen says a lot about your crypto-marxist agenda.
It's worth adding that the EU isn't a Free Trade bloc - its a customs union with amazingly restrictive trade rules. Agreeing a trade deal with the EU might actually lead to LESS freedom of trade.