Posted on 02/14/2011 4:16:43 PM PST by kbennkc
If Donald Trump is serious about seeking the Republican nomination for president, he may find himself running with little support from the party’s powerful economic conservatives.
Trump has been a vocal advocate in recent weeks for a 25 percent tariff on all Chinese imports, a proposal that influential conservative activist Grover Norquist calls “the worst kind of pandering.”
“The tariffs or the tax increases are what politicians call for when they’re expressing contempt for the American people’s intelligence,” Norquist, the founder of Americans for Tax Reform, told The Daily Caller. “Tariffs are not paid by Chinese people, they are paid by American people who buy Chinese products. It would raise the costs of everything you buy in the store. Most of those things you by from China and because you raised the price of one competitor, everybody else gets to raise their prices too.”
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http://www.cprr.org/Museum/Ephemera/Republican_Platform_1860.html
12. That while providing revenue for the support of the general government by duties upon imports, sound policy requires such an adjustment of these imposts as to encourage the development of the industrial interests of the whole country, and we commend that policy of national exchanges which secures to the workingmen liberal wages, to agriculture remunerating prices, to mechanics and manufacturers an adequate reward for their skill, labor and enterprise, and to the nation commercial prosperity and independence.
A Troubling Influence - An Islamic Fifth Column penetrates the White House
...and one from Michelle Malkin.
Trump said he was a Democrat a few years ago. He even donated to DEM 2009. I can’t believe anyone here would seriously entertain the thought of him running as gop nominee
The same way China compete against Zimbawae. If you have a tractor, you can compete against many ppl using shovels
Bump bump.
Fascinating what Trump said 5+ years ago
Norquist is an idiot or a libertarian but I repeat myself. The old school Conservative in the Republican Party were all about tariffs.
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