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Trump Threatens 35% Tax on Ford if Mexico Operations Expand
Mustang 360 ^ | 12/23/2015 | John Gilbert

Posted on 12/26/2015 9:13:54 AM PST by ScottWalkerForPresident2016

It was the Detroit News headline "Trump goes after Ford Motor Co." not how long Hillary went overtime in the restroom that got our attention. Donald Trump made a whistle stop outside Grand Rapids, Michigan to take aim at Ford’s plans to expand production in Mexico. Trump promised if elected he would threaten manufacturers with big tariffs on imports to discourage building manufacturing plants south of the border.

Trump to Ford, "If you build that plant in Mexico, I’m going to charge you 35 percent on every car, truck part that you send into our country," he said. "Every single one." Trump went further saying he would engage in tough negotiations with car companies to build new plants in the US and Michigan. Political analysts say Trump’s proposal would at the very minimum require congressional approval and possibly violate NAFTA.

(Excerpt) Read more at mustangandfords.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Mexico
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1 posted on 12/26/2015 9:13:55 AM PST by ScottWalkerForPresident2016
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To: ScottWalkerForPresident2016

He said this six months ago.


2 posted on 12/26/2015 9:15:24 AM PST by Rennes Templar (I'm pro gun control: keep your guns under your control at all times.)
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To: Cringing Negativism Network

This would do a lot to bring jobs to America.


3 posted on 12/26/2015 9:16:10 AM PST by Lazamataz (It has gotten to the point where any report from standard news outlets must be fact-checked.)
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To: ScottWalkerForPresident2016

How does a president impose a tax without Congress?


4 posted on 12/26/2015 9:16:51 AM PST by LachlanMinnesota
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To: ScottWalkerForPresident2016

Great news! NAFTA has to go. It only works for Canada and Mexico to rob us blinbd including our SOVEREIGNTY! Along with the end of NAFTA we will find out where our meat comes from.


5 posted on 12/26/2015 9:18:26 AM PST by Mollypitcher1 (I have not yet begun to fight....John Paul Jones)
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To: ScottWalkerForPresident2016

And a 50% tax on every dollar wired to Mexico every payday.


6 posted on 12/26/2015 9:18:50 AM PST by yobid (Get your hands off my carbon footprint)
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To: LachlanMinnesota
How does a president impose a tax without Congress?

Obama seems to have set the precedent that Presidential whims override the Constitution.

7 posted on 12/26/2015 9:19:54 AM PST by Mr. Jeeves ([CTRL]-[GALT]-[DELETE])
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To: Rennes Templar

Yeah ... this is not news


8 posted on 12/26/2015 9:20:38 AM PST by knarf (I say things that are true .... I have no proof ... but they're true.)
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To: ScottWalkerForPresident2016
Trump promised if elected he would threaten manufacturers with big tariffs on imports to discourage building manufacturing plants south of the border.

How about threatening them with a corporate tax rate cut to 10% - it will work a lot better. :)

9 posted on 12/26/2015 9:21:06 AM PST by Mr. Jeeves ([CTRL]-[GALT]-[DELETE])
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To: LachlanMinnesota

It will have Bernie Sanders vote.


10 posted on 12/26/2015 9:22:12 AM PST by cripplecreek (Pride goes before destruction, and a haughty spirit before a fall.)
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To: cripplecreek
Trump to Obie

Leave your pen and phone on the desk when you leave...

11 posted on 12/26/2015 9:26:31 AM PST by gov_bean_ counter (Trump to McCain - "Pass the strawberries".)
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To: Rennes Templar

And will he use the pen? Does anyone seriously think congress would pass this, or that it is in anyway constitutional to pick winners and losers like this?
Another 3-year-old idea trying to keep the air game going.


12 posted on 12/26/2015 9:26:51 AM PST by libbylu
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To: LachlanMinnesota
How does a president impose a tax without Congress?

Check with Obama/Valerie.

13 posted on 12/26/2015 9:27:16 AM PST by Don Corleone ("Oil the gun..eat the cannoli. Take it to the Mattress.")
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To: Rennes Templar

He’s been saying this like three times a week for the last six months! YOu have to wonder where the elitists are to not know that - holed up like preppers in their echo chamber??


14 posted on 12/26/2015 9:27:36 AM PST by dynoman (Objectivity is the essence of intelligence. - Marylin vos Savant)
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To: Mr. Jeeves

“Obama seems to have set the precedent that Presidential whims override the Constitution.”

Did anyone, or does anyone, criticize Obama for saying he would transform the United States? Did he ever say anything about doing that in a Constitutional manner? Does Trump saying he would impose a tariff rise to that level? Have you ever watched [a, any] president give a State of the Union speech?


15 posted on 12/26/2015 9:28:51 AM PST by odawg
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To: gov_bean_ counter

LOL

You can’t punish a business into hiring here anymore than you can beat a dog into loyalty.


16 posted on 12/26/2015 9:29:46 AM PST by cripplecreek (Pride goes before destruction, and a haughty spirit before a fall.)
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To: ScottWalkerForPresident2016

He should say that he will work tirelessly to eliminate the existing federal tax code. Reducing it to 2-3 pages would be helpful.

Eliminating the corporate tax and discontinuing the practice of taxing inventories!

A federal tax of 10 % on EVERYONE would be helpful to the nation. Or, eliminating the tax altogether and have individuals pay the tax to the state in which they reside. The states would then pay the goobermint an annual amount based on population.

Next, change the way Congress is paid. They should be paid by their individual states. Representatives would be selected by election of the people. Senators would be selected by the individual state legislatures for a period of FOUR years like it was done prior to 1912.

Washington and each state should have leaders that will dismantle most of the apparatus that has been erected over the years and referred to as bureaucracy.

Put these over-paid and over-fed loafers out the doors of their gigantic office buildings.


17 posted on 12/26/2015 9:30:55 AM PST by HomerBohn (Liberals and slinkies: they're good for nothing, but you smile as you shove them down the stairs.)
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To: libbylu

We either stop the bleeding or become a second rate postindustrial agricultural society.


18 posted on 12/26/2015 9:30:57 AM PST by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: cripplecreek
You can’t punish a business into hiring here anymore than you can beat a dog into loyalty.

Tell that to the founding fathers who were all protectionists.

19 posted on 12/26/2015 9:32:10 AM PST by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: Mollypitcher1

And will he use the pen? Does anyone seriously think congress would pass this, or that it is in anyway constitutional to pick winners and losers like this?
Another 3-year-old idea trying to keep the air game going.
Hardcore Trumpees have lost it.
I want the constitution enforced, not played with just like Obama.
AND TRUST THIS: THE DEMOCRATS, PUBBIES AND MSM WOULD SURELY IMPEACH A PRESIDENT TRUMP FOR SUCH.
And I would cheer.
Give me that even tempered Cruz who understands the constitution.


20 posted on 12/26/2015 9:32:52 AM PST by libbylu
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