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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
KEYWORDS: antiamerican; antifreedom; antiliberty; authoritarian; childishthreats; cronyism; cronylaborunions; detroit; dictator; donaldtrump; elections; ford; freetrade; governmentforce; governmentthreats; immigration; justlikeobama; mexico; nafta; notconservative; notpresidential; overreach; protectionism; tariffs; taxation; threats; totalitarian; trump; trumpiswrong; trumpwasright; wronginsomanyways
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To: Partisan Gunslinger
You hold stupidity as a virtue.

So I should take sh!t form a progressive prick like you? F off.

261 posted on 12/26/2015 4:08:50 PM PST by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: central_va

I believe that “gobbledy gook” as you call it because it’s written in God’s Word.

Yes, God bless America, but America hasn’t done a whole lot of blessing God lately- and we’ve suffered for it.

What’s “gobbledy gook” is people who tell others not to worry about or be aware of such things, not to study the book of Revelation because it’s not to be understood and you’re going to be gone anyway. Or that you’re going to have some Godzilla like monster rising out of the sea rather than what it is, a one world governmental system rising out of the waters(peoples).

Before I’m an American I am a believer in the bible and in Jesus Christ. Maybe the country would be a lot better off if more of his prioritized that and looked to please God and looked to Him for our protection and our blessings rather than waiting for the next man to come and save us. It sure as heck couldn’t hurt.


262 posted on 12/26/2015 4:11:04 PM PST by American Faith Today
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To: American Faith Today

You are a gloBULList shill. Go Trump,go! The kooks are out on FR tonite!


263 posted on 12/26/2015 4:12:31 PM PST by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: central_va
Ok you want an income tax. I will put you in the progressive column.

Who do you not hate? You hate three major groups: Non-southerners, non-secessionists, and non-protectionists. You hate 99% of your countrymen.

264 posted on 12/26/2015 4:16:41 PM PST by Partisan Gunslinger
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To: American Faith Today

You are passing your pearls before swine to this dude. lol


265 posted on 12/26/2015 4:18:49 PM PST by Partisan Gunslinger
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To: yobid

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

Yes. I think that controlling the money aliens are sending to their respective home countries is a no-brainer. If it is no longer profitable for them to send USA-earned dollars home to Mama in Mexico, or wherever, self deportation might actually catch on.


266 posted on 12/26/2015 4:21:36 PM PST by MayflowerMadam (TDS: Hating Trump more than loving America.)
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To: Partisan Gunslinger
You hate 99% of your countrymen.

I don't hate them at all, only the stupid ones like you.

267 posted on 12/26/2015 4:22:09 PM PST by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: central_va
I don't hate them at all, only the stupid ones like you.

Oh, you call all your friends "traitors"? Are free traders traitors or aren't they?

268 posted on 12/26/2015 4:24:25 PM PST by Partisan Gunslinger
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To: Partisan Gunslinger
Only a tiny portion of Free Republic posters believe in Free trade as it has been practiced over the last 30 years. You are in the minority.

You should read some of Jim Robinson's posts on Free trade....

269 posted on 12/26/2015 4:28:07 PM PST by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: central_va
Only a tiny portion of Free Republic posters believe in Free trade as it has been practiced over the last 30 years. You are in the minority.

Most would be free traders rather than protectionists.

You should read some of Jim Robinson's posts on Free trade....

I agree with no one on all things. If you want to bring his opinion in on it, maybe we should discuss his opinion on secession. What is Free Republic's position on secession?

270 posted on 12/26/2015 4:32:52 PM PST by Partisan Gunslinger
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To: Partisan Gunslinger

You are correct.

Thank you for that.


271 posted on 12/26/2015 4:35:04 PM PST by American Faith Today
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To: Partisan Gunslinger
What is Free Republic's position on secession?

He may have stated his case on that but I haven't seen it. I have seen him post that if Texas were to secede he would go there in a minute.

272 posted on 12/26/2015 4:35:12 PM PST by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: Dana1960

‘’I want a mean SOB to follow the SOB currently living in the White House.’’

Definitely. The more “badass” Trump becomes, the more I support him. The last few decades of mealy-mouthed, milquetoast, weasel-wording politicians have killed the USA. Trump is the only one with the backbone to turn around the trend.


273 posted on 12/26/2015 4:36:46 PM PST by MayflowerMadam (TDS: Hating Trump more than loving America.)
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To: American Faith Today

Lady if you believe God is telling you that a “one world” uni-government is the way to redemption and salvation you are a kook. Get help.


274 posted on 12/26/2015 4:37:10 PM PST by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: American Faith Today
You are correct. Thank you for that.

Welcome, but I didn't mean it's not worth a try. The good thing about passing pearls on a site like this is that it reaches more than the swine. :^)

275 posted on 12/26/2015 4:39:11 PM PST by Partisan Gunslinger
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To: editor-surveyor; Mr. Jeeves; C. Edmund Wright

>> There are many things that aren’t being made in America because they can’t be made here for a price that American consumers will support due to our country’s existing tax/regulatory environment. No tariff can change that. <<

Agreed completely.

But that ain’t half of the story. The more important reality is that if a dictator ruled the USA and decreed tomorrow that all the toys, electronics, appliances, furniture, shoes, home furnishings and clothing imported into the USA must henceforth be made here, we simply wouldn’t have the labor force to accomplish the requirement.

Moreover, even if we put every able-bodied American adult and child to work making such labor-intensive products as most of the items sold at Walmart and Target and Sears and your local retailer, we’d still probably come up short — not to mention the fact that we’d have to stop making cars, repairing computers, laying fiber-optic cables, cleaning clothes, eating in restaurants and growing food.

But don’t breathe a word of this reality to the latter-day petty mercantilists who worship at the foot of a Ross Perot or a Pat Buchanan or a Dick Gephardt or a Donald Trump. They won’t be interested in analyzing the problem and showing logically where you are mistaken. No, they’ll only be able to call you pejorative names and hurl childish insults.


276 posted on 12/26/2015 4:40:45 PM PST by Hawthorn
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To: central_va
He may have stated his case on that but I haven't seen it.

Clear as a bell on the home page in the disclaimer paragraph:

"Free Republic does not advocate or condone racism, violence, rebellion, secession, or an overthrow of the government."

277 posted on 12/26/2015 4:43:01 PM PST by Partisan Gunslinger
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To: Hawthorn
But that ain't half of the story. The more important reality is that if a dictator ruled the USA and decreed tomorrow that all the toys, electronics, appliances, furniture, shoes, home furnishings and clothing imported into the USA must henceforth be made here, we simply wouldn’t have the labor force to accomplish the requirement.

Oh boy, you are really a brainwashed gloBULList. My God we have 90 million not working in the USA, roughly the population of the UK and Canada combined.

278 posted on 12/26/2015 4:49:01 PM PST by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: gunsequalfreedom
Oh, horror. It would violate NAFTA said the experts.

I noticed that as well...good.

279 posted on 12/26/2015 4:49:42 PM PST by mac_truck (aide toi et dieu t'aidera)
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To: Partisan Gunslinger

Well I have seen Jim Robinson post pro secession sentiments. Sadly he doesn’t post much anymore....


280 posted on 12/26/2015 4:49:55 PM PST by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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