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To: Cringing Negativism Network
Free Trade is only one of the problems.

But it's a big one.

I support a 50% tariff on all manufactured goods that originate in China (due to currency manipulation) and a $50/bbl tariff on all IMPORTED oil and refined products (national security issue).

Of course the energy tariff would have to be offset by more nukes and more drilling. And, some of that tariff money could be used to offset a guaranteed price for "cracked" diesel from coal...

46 posted on 02/13/2011 4:48:46 PM PST by Mariner (USS Tarawa, VQ3, USS Benjamin Stoddert, NAVCAMS WestPac, 7th Fleet, Navcommsta Puget Sound)
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To: Mariner

That’s a good start. You covered our two most problematic imports. Chinese goods and oil+oil byproducts. Good tariff plan you have. Most of the posters here are basking in libertarian BS. Plus much as I dislike Federal regulatory agencies we could get rid of EPA and OSHA and still not be able to compete against Chinese slave labor wages


229 posted on 02/13/2011 7:34:29 PM PST by dennisw (- - - -He who does not economize will have to agonize - - - - - Confucius)
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