Mike Pence Removes ALL Lobbyists From Trump Administration Transition Team!

Common Sense Evaluation ^

[gaggs]

Operation Drain the Swamp has begun. Vice President-elect Mike Pence reportedly ordered the removal of all lobbyists from president-elect Donald Trump's transition team.

[Sacajaweau]

Anyone left??

[nathanbedford]

Too bad Gov. Pence and President-elect Trump cannot keep the lobbyists away from the House of Representatives where they are enacting a cement tax complete with a new federal agency evidently lobbied by big cement.

If you did not know about this, you weren't listening to Mark Levin.

[eaglestar]

Was this the negative chaos that the pencil heads in the Media were crying about?

[central_va]

IF it’s a tariff I am for it.

[WayneS]

Okay. He may have ordered it, but did it actually happen?

Did he/they make any exceptions for “good friends”?

Did he/they redefine the word “lobbyist”?

I hope they are serious about this, but I have my doubts. After all, they ARE politicians.

[MortMan]

I’m still not tired of winning at all!

[COBOL2Java]

Was this the negative chaos that the pencil heads in the Media were crying about?

That'd be my guess. Was listening to the local all-news DC radio program (WTOP) tut-tutting the "chaos" in Trump's transition.

[jmaroneps37]

But but but HOW can this BE? Our good friends in the media are telling us Trump/Pence are breaking campaign promises already! Whom to believe, oh whom to believe?

[Cobra64]

You haven’t been paying attention. Trump is not a politician.

[WayneS]

During a time of increased nationwide infrastructure construction/repair/replacement a cement tax could be a great source of graft income for well connected individuals to further enrich themselves...

... I mean, a great source of tax revenue for our country to help balance the budget...

...

[nathanbedford]

To my knowledge it's not, but if you like perhaps we can elevate the agency to cabinet status and double the tax.

Why the reflex for a tariff?

A tax by any other name is a tariff, by its nature it imposes hardship on consumers and when it is on a substance that is used in virtually every bit of construction, its ripple effect through the economy could be devastating. At a time when another Republican congressman is touting $1 trillion worth of infrastructure, presumably in keeping with Donald Trump's vision to restore American infrastructure, the ripple effect would be magnified.

We need neither a tariff on cement or a tax on cement, much less a federal agency. We are likely to tariff ourselves into a massive trade war and depression.

[NorthMountain]

enacting a cement tax

Unlike some 'tards, I did hear that on Levin. What the heck is it?

[central_va]

We are likely to tariff ourselves into a massive trade war and depression.

Message to Gen. Forrest: WE ARE IN A MASSIVE TRADE WAR AND DEPRESSION. Start fighting back!

[NorthMountain]

American industry’s biggest enemy is in Washington, DC ... not Beijing or Tokyo. Proper targeting matters.

[nathanbedford]

Where an importer is improperly subsidizing its exports to the United States we should invoke all remedies and, as a last resort, tariffs to defend American industry against dumping etc.

But a reflex that a tariff is just wonderful without knowing more is a recipe for global chaos.

[WayneS]

Okay. Whatever you say.

[gaggs]

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/16/us/politics/trump-transition.html?_r=0

[central_va]

I do not care about global chaos. I care about the chaos and socialism ascendant in the USA caused by idling our work force in the name of said globalization and profit margins.

[central_va]

Globalist lobbyists demanding and paying for zero import tariffs are the ones that need to be destroyed first.