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Trump says Goodbye to Free-Market Economics (sore loser alert)
National Review ^ | 12/07/2016 | George Will

Posted on 12/07/2016 8:03:27 PM PST by Rebel2016

So, this is the new conservatism’s recipe for restored greatness: Political coercion shall supplant economic calculation in shaping decisions by companies in what is called, with diminishing accuracy, the private sector. This will be done partly as conservatism’s challenge to liberalism’s supremacy in the victimhood sweepstakes, telling aggrieved groups that they are helpless victims of vast, impersonal forces, against which they can be protected only by government interventions

Read more at: http://www.nationalreview.com/article/442852/donald-trump-carrier-ploy-repudiated-free-markets-conservatism

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To: hinckley buzzard

george will acts as if anyone cares what he says about anything. Is he delusional, senile or both? What a butt-hurt loser.


21 posted on 12/07/2016 8:18:18 PM PST by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp?.)
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To: DannyTN
“The founding fathers put in high import tariffs and they served us well for 180 years. Reducing them was a major mistake that resulted in high unemployment, industry loss, and real wage stagnation.”

Absolutely Right. The liberal mainstream media creators of the alternate false universe say the opposite of course but we know here the media lie.

That's how America became the industrial power of the world.

Then Democrat Woodrow Wilson and Democrat FDR and the progressive era decided that the IRS and income taxes would be better for the economy than tariffs. So they amended the Constitution so they can really grow government with the unconstitutional income tax.

22 posted on 12/07/2016 8:18:34 PM PST by Democrat_media (bots are donating to Jill Stein's website for the recount. Soros behind big scheme)
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To: Rebel2016
George is always in a bad,snarky mood. His facial expression always reminds me of someone that just smelled human waste.
23 posted on 12/07/2016 8:18:37 PM PST by samantha (keep up the fight..)
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To: Rebel2016

Say Goodbye and Goodnight George.

You are past your expiration date.


24 posted on 12/07/2016 8:20:04 PM PST by Grampa Dave (Hey, whining losers,Trump will just go ahead & make things better for us without you!!!!")
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To: Gene Eric

George will is no William Buckley. National Review has taken a bizarre turn since Buckley died. It’s full of itself.


25 posted on 12/07/2016 8:20:24 PM PST by Sasparilla (I 'm Not Tired Of Winning)
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To: DannyTN

The tariff was not designed for protection in the early part of the 1800’s. It was designed to raise revenue. Protection versus revenue tariffs. A really effective protective tariff raises little or no revenue.

The tariff revenue was a principle source of revenue for the federal government for a good part of the early 1800’s. And we paid off the national debt sometime in the early 1830s as I recall.


26 posted on 12/07/2016 8:20:24 PM PST by Maine Mariner
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To: Vesparado

>> Conservative principles have not been undermined here

Indeed.

The Country hemorrhaging at $20 Trillion isn’t much of a factor to the irrelevant contrarians.


27 posted on 12/07/2016 8:21:43 PM PST by Gene Eric (Don't be a statist!)
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To: hinckley buzzard

George Will is a conservative. And he is an illustration of why Trump beat every conservative who dared to enter the field. Until ideology meets reality, movement conservatives will continue to be shut out at the national level. As it stands today post election 2016, Conservatism is as irrelevant as Libertarianism, and Will’s screed just gave a clear example of why.


Will is not a conservative. He is a beltway lifer who preferred Hillary Criminal and her Constition destroying SCOTUS to the GOP nominee. “True conservatives” fought to defeat her with their every breath. Obviously, Will did not do that.


28 posted on 12/07/2016 8:22:13 PM PST by lodi90
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To: Rebel2016

George Will should be out on the street like 45 million other citizens are. Eventually it might dawn on him it was a good idea to focus on putting people to work again.

Folks, we gave it a try. Around 1992 we went full on for Free Trade (that wasn’t free). Some of us tried to talk sense into folks. They knew best.

The worst job situation in 85 years still hasn’t convinced them. To bleeping bad.

We’re taking measures to bring jobs back.

They had their way. It was too costly to the nation.

After gifting China with over 50 years of patents and know how, it’s time to think of us first.


29 posted on 12/07/2016 8:22:19 PM PST by DoughtyOne (jcon40, "Are we be coming into the age of Sanity?")
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To: 867V309

There is no such thing as “Free Markets” with socialist/Marxists nations which use human beings as slaves of the state.

The problem is the definition of words—making them into meaningless things.

We NEVER had a so-called Free Market with any communist/socialist nation——but they called it “free market”—just like they call two sodomites who lust after each other, a “homosexual marriage”.

All irrational, to destroy nations for the NWO-—where we are all slaves of the elite psychopaths. George Will “thinks” he will be one of our masters—one of the elites—but he will be one of the first ones disposed of if tyranny does win out since he will be one of the useless ones then. He is a useful idiot now.


30 posted on 12/07/2016 8:22:48 PM PST by savagesusie (When Law ceases to be Just, it ceases to be Law. (Thomas A./Founders/John Marshall)/Nuremberg)
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To: Gene Eric

George Will: Hmmm

Wasn’t he a #NeverTrumper?
Wasn’t National Review the Home base of the NeverTrump movement?

I particularly liked this George Will quote which seems to be something a leftist democrat would say rather than some free-market conservative...:

We ought to say to these children, ‘Welcome to America, you’re going to go to school and get a job and become Americans,’” Will said on the Sunday morning show. “We have 3,141 counties in this country. That would be 20 [children] per county. The idea that we can’t assimilate these 8-year-old ‘criminals’ with their teddy bears is preposterous.”

http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2014/07/27/welcome-to-america-george-wills-take-on-migrant-children-leaves-fox-news-host-stammering/


31 posted on 12/07/2016 8:24:00 PM PST by Freedom56v2
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To: Rebel2016

Get ‘em out of here!


32 posted on 12/07/2016 8:24:42 PM PST by Behind the Blue Wall
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To: Maine Mariner

Tariffs were never designed to protect jobs. They were designed to protect infant industries. The Dems only switched to using tariffs to “protect” jobs during the Reagan era.


33 posted on 12/07/2016 8:25:09 PM PST by 1rudeboy
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To: Gene Eric

Stop insulting idiots


34 posted on 12/07/2016 8:25:34 PM PST by bigbob (We have better coverage than Verizon - Can You Hear Us Now?)
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To: Rebel2016
What in God’s name is he talking about? It was government intervention, not the invisible hand of the free market, that manipulated our corporate tax rates to the extent that corporations actually had a financial incentive to ship jobs to China. I’m sick of these neo-con idiots.
35 posted on 12/07/2016 8:25:42 PM PST by JGT
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To: Lurkinanloomin
Everyone at National Review should just be ignored, and maybe they will just fade away or and go out of business.
36 posted on 12/07/2016 8:26:09 PM PST by Grampa Dave (Hey, whining losers,Trump will just go ahead & make things better for us without you!!!!")
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To: Rebel2016

Idiot. There has never been a free market.

An intellectual like George Will has never been a blue collar work who lost his job because America made it easy for companies to move overseas and import back here.

Trump wants to stop the practice. If that means limiting what companies can do, so be it. Its called putting America and its people first. For that, Trump makes no apologies.

Our private sector will play by new rules.


37 posted on 12/07/2016 8:26:24 PM PST by goldstategop ((In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever))
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To: hinckley buzzard
What has a “conservative” politician DONE (as in laws passed) in the last 30 years that is conservative or that helps America?

Trump wants to DRASTICALLY reduce government regulations (eliminate 70% of gov regulations) and taxes on U.S. businesses. Which of your “movement conservatives” politicians or even pundits proposed any legislation for reducing 30% of government regulations, 10%? in the last 30 years after Reagan( Hint : Reagan was the only one).

Reducing government regulations and taxes is conservative by the way.

Well Trump wants to eliminate 70% of government regulations and also gov employees.

http://fortune.com/2016/10/07/donald-trump-business-regulations/

"Donald Trump Says 70% of Federal Regulations ‘Can Go’

U.S. Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump said as many as 70% of federal agency regulations could be eliminated if he is elected in November

38 posted on 12/07/2016 8:27:29 PM PST by Democrat_media (bots are donating to Jill Stein's website for the recount. Soros behind big scheme)
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To: 1rudeboy
You forgot the next step: only government can protect us from the free market.

You mean by playing favorites with the Union leadership by raising minimum wage? What was not disclosed in these so called 'free trade' deals, is labor (humans) are a commodity. What business has George Will ever produced? He is a high minded snob that totally ignores it was 'government' action that created so called 'free-markets'...

When so called 'conservatives' bitch about Trump's economic plans, that tells me they got theirs, by government, and by golly they do not intend to have their pots of gold messed with by anyone.

39 posted on 12/07/2016 8:29:37 PM PST by Just mythoughts (Jesus said Luke 17:32 Remember Lot's wife.)
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To: Rebel2016

Hey George. The 40’s called. They want their tie back.


40 posted on 12/07/2016 8:29:45 PM PST by 867V309 (Lock Her Up)
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