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To: Jim 0216
As far as your tariffs go, it is rational policy to shoot yourself in the foot because someone else shoots themselves in the foot, so everyone is “equal’?

Tariffs are a rational policy to maintain an independent nation as our founders understood and you clearly do not.

As for eliminating the minimum wage. Sure, let's leave it all to the fine folks who've flooded the US with legal and illegal Third World immigrants to keep wages down, and have moved millions of jobs to cheap labor nations, and use any other scheme available to lower the wage US workers.

The so-called free market, on an international basis, is little more than a fantasy entertained by the naive and exploited by the globalists.

221 posted on 01/27/2017 12:46:08 PM PST by Will88
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To: Will88

At America’s beginnings, tariffs that were used to help us as a fledgling, new country and economy. But we are the most powerful, richest country in the world now. There’s nothing wrong with giving a baby a bottle for their milk. There’s everything wrong with a strong grown man still drinking out of a baby bottle.

As far as the misapplication of globalism, you’re confusing political globalism which threatens national sovereignty, with economic voluntary cooperation in free trade between businesses in different countries which does not threaten national sovereignty but actually strengthens it.


222 posted on 01/27/2017 1:00:21 PM PST by Jim W N
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