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This article is about uncertainty about future policy.  Nobody knows the future but what we know about the present is that tariffs are bad, commerce is good, tweeting is new and more and more people do it and (imho) this is good.   Here are some of Trumps tweets:

and here are some of Carrier's tweets (from here):

Memo to anti-Trumpers: people tweet.  Deal with it.

1 posted on 12/06/2016 2:20:13 AM PST by expat_panama
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To: expat_panama

I’d like someone to make a compelling case that tariffs would even be successful at addressing what they’re intended to accomplish.


2 posted on 12/06/2016 2:25:34 AM PST by Alberta's Child ("Yo, bartender -- Jobu needs a refill!")
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Tariffs were one of the few ways that America made its money early on. It was only after the egregious income tax laws were put into place that we lowered our tariffs and became more global with our manufacturing and shipping. This is exactly how you put America first: lower or eliminate income taxes and increase tariffs. Buy American.


3 posted on 12/06/2016 2:26:23 AM PST by rarestia (It's time to water the Tree of Liberty.)
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To: expat_panama

Drastically reduce, or even better, completely remove the corporate income tax.

It’s just a hidden tax on the middle class consumers after all!

Then there won’t be such a problem with business going overseas... I honestly can’t blame them with a 35% corp tax.

Bring all hidden taxes out into the open and let the sunlight shine on them... then people will see things as they actually are.


4 posted on 12/06/2016 2:27:57 AM PST by Bobalu (See liberal MSM heads explode...make Milo Yiannopoulos Trump's new Press Secretary!)
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5 posted on 12/06/2016 2:32:06 AM PST by RC one (The 2nd Amendment is a doomsday provision, one designed for those exceptionally rare circumstances)
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To: expat_panama

There are obvious risks in protectionism. Trump must be assuming that the US economy is so powerful that it can win any trade or tariff wars with other countries while maintaining domestic productivity at a high level despite decreased competition. I hope he is right.


19 posted on 12/06/2016 3:43:42 AM PST by djpg
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To: expat_panama

Thank God we finally have a President with a back bone. Imagne what would have happend, or not happened, if Obama, the Clintons, or even the Bushs’, had been around at the time of the founding of this country.


30 posted on 12/06/2016 3:58:42 AM PST by TonyM
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The panicked left is thinking of threatening to shut his twitter account down. And I supposed they could do the same to his Facebook account.

But they better be careful or he’d end up building a cant-miss WH web site, “tweeting” to Drudge, etc.


59 posted on 12/08/2016 4:41:35 AM PST by 9YearLurker
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