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Trump Advisor: A Vote for Ted Cruz is a Vote to Offshore American Jobs
economyincrisis ^ | March 25, 2016 | Matthew Wisner

Posted on 03/30/2016 4:29:17 AM PDT by central_va

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To: MaxFlint
When Great Britain was a world industrial power they hanged businessmen who sold industrial techniques and machinery to foreigners.

Like! Do you have a reference for that?

81 posted on 03/30/2016 8:20:16 AM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: central_va
Like! Do you have a reference for that?

Not easily. It was from a book on trade I have packed away someplace. Read a bunch of those during the NAFTA debate. Need to dig those out now that we finally have a patriotic candidate.

82 posted on 03/30/2016 8:26:12 AM PDT by MaxFlint
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To: dead

;-)


83 posted on 03/30/2016 9:04:37 AM PDT by Flick Lives (One should not attend even the end of the world without a good breakfast. -- Heinlein)
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To: NavVet; central_va
The Reagan Record On Trade: Rhetoric Vs. Reality

"When President Reagan imposed a 100 percent tariff on selected Japanese electronics in 1987, he and the press gave the impression that this was an act of desperation. Pictured was a long-forbearing president whose patience was exhausted by the recalcitrant and conniving Japanese. After trying for years to elicit some fairness out of them, went the story, the usually good-natured president had finally had enough.

When newspapers and television networks announced the tariffs, the media reminded the public that such restraints were imposed by a staunch free trader. The less-than-subtle message was that if "Free Trader" Ronald Reagan thought the tariff necessary, then Japan surely deserved it. After more than seven years in office, Ronald Reagan is still widely regarded as a devoted free trader. A typical reference is that of Mark Shields, a Washington Post columnist, to Reagan's "blind devotion to the doctrine of free trade."(1)

If President Reagan has a devotion to free trade, it surely must be blind, because he has been off the mark most of the time. Only short memories and a refusal to believe one's own eyes would account for the view that President Reagan is a free trader. Calling oneself a free trader is not the same thing as being a free trader. Nor does a free- trade position mean that the president, but not Congress, should have the power to impose trade sanctions. Instead, a president deserves the title of free trader only if his efforts demonstrate an attempt to remove trade barriers at home and prevent the imposition of new ones.

By this standard, the Reagan administration has failed to promote free trade. Ronald Reagan by his actions has become the most protectionist president since Herbert Hoover, the heavyweight champion of protectionists...

84 posted on 03/30/2016 9:14:13 AM PDT by Pelham (A refusal to deport is defacto amnesty)
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To: plewis1250

“What the heck do you think a 45% tariff on imports will do?”

This has been discussed many times on this forum. Apparently you are to ignorant for me to even spell it out for you.


85 posted on 03/30/2016 9:49:13 AM PDT by Parley Baer
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To: central_va

You know, socioeconomic class (ie “middle class”), is the invention of Karl Marx. When you use enemy terminology, you are well on your way to capitulating.


86 posted on 03/30/2016 10:17:45 AM PDT by Theophilus (Always vote. Always vote your conscience. God wins every election.)
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To: cba123

Trump’s theme song
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=WIXg9KUiy00


87 posted on 03/30/2016 10:47:38 AM PDT by magna carta
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To: Pelham

As I said, retaliatory tariffs to punish a country for blocking US imports is one thing, but that’s not all Trump is talking about. He is also talking about tariffs for the sole purpose of protecting American industry. Trump is advocating the very thing the Japanese were doing that angered Regan


88 posted on 03/30/2016 11:17:58 AM PDT by NavVet ("You Lie!")
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To: central_va
Without tariffs the USA would have missed the industrial revolution. The consequences of which would be enormous. Without the USA's industrial might Hitler's Germany would rule have the Europe and the middle east and Imperial Japan both Asia and Australia..

This is the silliest thing I've seen in a long time regarding trade. We cut tariffs down to almost nothing in the 40s and we did just fine technologically until the liberals over-expanded government in the late 60s.

89 posted on 03/30/2016 11:37:39 AM PDT by Partisan Gunslinger ( After darkness, light.)
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To: NavVet

Reagan imposed semiconductor, motorcycle, and auto restrictions expressly as a protectionist measure. None of Reagan’s import restrictions effected a change in Japan’s import policy.

Japan didn’t use tariffs during Reagan and they still don’t.

They employ far more effective non-tariff barriers in order to severely restrict access to their home market. China uses a similar policy.


90 posted on 03/30/2016 11:42:48 AM PDT by Pelham (A refusal to deport is defacto amnesty)
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To: Partisan Gunslinger

The 1940’s we were fighting WWII. I was talking about the first half of the 19th century when countries either industrialized or missed the boat. Surly you can follow a simple conversation. Try to keep up.


91 posted on 03/30/2016 12:00:49 PM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: NavVet
We are our own worst enemy in a lot of ways.

End The Fed!

92 posted on 03/30/2016 12:20:05 PM PDT by Theophilus (Always vote. Always vote your conscience. God wins every election.)
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To: Solson

I’m a Cruzer. If he chooses a GOPe for VP I would not vote for him. How about you and Trump?


93 posted on 03/30/2016 12:22:06 PM PDT by Theophilus (Always vote. Always vote your conscience. God wins every election.)
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To: central_va

Ted’s against outsourcing!

(Unless it’s for the job of POTUS, and then he thinks a Canadian can do it better)


94 posted on 03/30/2016 12:54:03 PM PDT by Bubba Gump Shrimp (if God wanted Cruz to be president, he'd have been born in America)
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To: central_va

yep


95 posted on 03/30/2016 2:31:55 PM PDT by SaveFerris (Be a blessing to a stranger today for some have entertained angels unaware)
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To: central_va

bkmk


96 posted on 03/30/2016 4:15:41 PM PDT by AllAmericanGirl44 ("You see you don't have to live like a refugee" Tom Petty or obama?)
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To: Solson

lol, doesn’t get any clearer than that!


97 posted on 03/30/2016 4:17:00 PM PDT by AllAmericanGirl44 ("You see you don't have to live like a refugee" Tom Petty or obama?)
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To: central_va
The 1940’s we were fighting WWII. I was talking about the first half of the 19th century when countries either industrialized or missed the boat. Surly you can follow a simple conversation. Try to keep up.

You implied a country can't industrialize without tariffs. WWII was over in 1945, and about the same time tariffs were near 0, and we industrialized just fine until government was grown out of control by Johnson.

98 posted on 03/31/2016 9:51:55 AM PDT by Partisan Gunslinger ( After darkness, light.)
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