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Free Trade Doesn't Work: Why America Needs a Tariff
Free Trade Doesnt Work ^
| January 30, 2010
| Ian Fletcher
Posted on 01/31/2010 6:42:57 PM PST by ianfletcher
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If you already know free trade is a mistake, but don't know how to prove it or what to do about it, then this book is for you.
If you still think free trade is good for America and the world, you're in for a big surprise...
To: ianfletcher
Free trade is fine. Globally managed trade is what sucks.
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posted on
01/31/2010 6:45:10 PM PST
by
cripplecreek
(Seniors, the new shovel ready project under socialized medicine.)
To: ianfletcher
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posted on
01/31/2010 6:46:03 PM PST
by
Texas Eagle
(If it wasn't for double-standards, Liberals would have no standards at all. -- Texas Eagle)
To: ianfletcher
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posted on
01/31/2010 6:46:18 PM PST
by
ABQHispConservative
(A good Blue Dog is an unelected Blue Dog. Ditto Rino's!)
To: ianfletcher
intellectual fools will always persist. calling pat buchanon anyone?
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posted on
01/31/2010 6:46:19 PM PST
by
TexasGus
(u)
To: ianfletcher
My view is simple.
Tariffs=taxes
Taxes=bad
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posted on
01/31/2010 6:48:09 PM PST
by
Impy
(RED=COMMUNIST, NOT REPUBLICAN | NO "INDIVIDUAL MANDATE"!!!!!!!)
To: ianfletcher
It’s probably just a coincidence that your screen name is the same as the author’s but I wonder if the book goes into the effects unions, regulations and frivolous lawsuits have had on manufacturing in this country.
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posted on
01/31/2010 6:48:30 PM PST
by
Texas Eagle
(If it wasn't for double-standards, Liberals would have no standards at all. -- Texas Eagle)
To: Impy
Does anyone today realize that the increased tariffs brought about by the Smoot-Hawley Act contributed greatly to the Great Deppression?
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posted on
01/31/2010 6:50:08 PM PST
by
JayVee
(Joseph)
To: cripplecreek
You said what I was going to say. But you said it better than I could have.
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posted on
01/31/2010 6:50:22 PM PST
by
wolfpat
(Moderate=Clueless)
To: ianfletcher
Welcome to Free Republic
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posted on
01/31/2010 6:50:40 PM PST
by
sionnsar
(IranAzadi|5yst3m 0wn3d-it's N0t Y0ur5:SONY|Remember Neda Agha-Soltan|TV--it's NOT news you can trust)
To: Texas Eagle
Its probably just a coincidence that your screen name is the same as the authors but I wonder if the book goes into the effects unions, regulations and frivolous lawsuits have had on manufacturing in this country. Well, the book gets great reviews from the heads of unions, if that's any indication.
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posted on
01/31/2010 6:51:29 PM PST
by
Wissa
("So this is how liberty dies... with thunderous applause."-Padme Amidala)
To: ianfletcher
i guess hiding behind unionism and inferior products, pricing them expensively and forcing the population to take them is a brilliant idea. calling venezuela. calling zimbabwe. calling the unionist foes of productivity and wealth creation. calling other fools please.
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posted on
01/31/2010 6:51:40 PM PST
by
TexasGus
(u)
To: ianfletcher
Repeal the 16th amendment and let Washington go back to raising revenue the way the founders envisioned - through tariffs.
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posted on
01/31/2010 6:51:51 PM PST
by
eclecticEel
(The Most High rules in the kingdom of men ... and sets over it the basest of men.)
To: cripplecreek
Agreed. I wonder if the author takes into account the corporate tax burden in this country.
To: ianfletcher
You'd be in for a big surprise only if you didn't think for yourself. Tariffs have never worked to do anything other than impoverish ordinary working Americans and enrich the parasites who have managed to co-opt the machinery of the government (i.e., the liberals at this stage of the game):
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posted on
01/31/2010 6:54:17 PM PST
by
Oceander
(The Price of Freedom is Eternal Vigilance -- Thos. Jefferson)
To: ianfletcher
Wow, this book manages to be anti-producer and anti-consumer at the same time! It is pro-union though...
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posted on
01/31/2010 6:56:20 PM PST
by
Cheap_Hessian
(I am the Grim FReeper.)
To: Impy
>My view is simple.
>Tariffs=taxes
>Taxes=bad
I see, but that is [perhaps] a bit too simple of a view. dictionary.com has the following definition:
tariff
noun
1. an official list or table showing the duties or customs imposed by a government on imports or exports.
2. the schedule or system of duties so imposed.
3. any duty or rate of duty in such a list or schedule.
4. any table of charges, as of a railroad, bus line, etc.
5. bill; cost; charge.
verb (used with object)
6. to subject to a tariff.
7. to put a valuation on according to a tariff.
Before the imposition of the income tax, virtually all taxation (read governmental revenue) was from tariffs; but this might not apply to consumer goods because tariffs are ONLY applied to imports/exports. This means that if we were a self-sufficient country [and we VERY EASILY could be] then any Citizen/legal-resident would be able to live without paying a single cent in tariffs.
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posted on
01/31/2010 6:58:23 PM PST
by
OneWingedShark
(Q: Why am I here? A: To do Justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with my God.)
To: JayVee
I sure do. Hoover’s biggest single mistake. Back then the GOP was more protectionist and the rats free trade. There is much crossover but it’s mostly the other way around now.
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posted on
01/31/2010 6:58:40 PM PST
by
Impy
(RED=COMMUNIST, NOT REPUBLICAN | NO "INDIVIDUAL MANDATE"!!!!!!!)
To: ianfletcher
Free Trade is a death march for an advanced society and economy.
Soon, the 3rd world would be your master.
They are NOT going to play by any rule that puts them at a disadvantage.
Either we take charge of our economic future, or they will.
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posted on
01/31/2010 6:58:56 PM PST
by
Mariner
To: ianfletcher
I think we’re mixing our definitions a bit. Free trade, as I understand it, is free as in ‘unrestricted.’ The opposite of Japan’s anti-trade stance when Admiral Perry burst in on the scene.
What are you defining it as?
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posted on
01/31/2010 7:01:15 PM PST
by
OneWingedShark
(Q: Why am I here? A: To do Justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with my God.)
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