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To: LS

What Trump can do is to prevent America from buying so much imported goods, by making them more expensive by TAXING IMPORTS.

We need more revenue, and we need jobs back.

Tax imports. Big time.


17 posted on 08/12/2015 7:59:57 AM PDT by Cringing Negativism Network (http://www.census.gov/foreign-trade/balance/c5700.html)
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To: Cringing Negativism Network

The traditional argument against that was that the free market would win out. I’m not sure that is the case vs. a massive quasi-slave-labor society like China, any more than it was true in the American South. There, it took government action and eventually a war to undo the gubment support of the slave system. So, in this case, I wouldn’t be opposed to tariffs on Chinese originated goods.


22 posted on 08/12/2015 8:06:47 AM PDT by LS ("Castles Made of Sand, Fall in the Sea . . . Eventually" (Hendrix))
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To: Cringing Negativism Network
What Trump can do is to prevent America from buying so much imported goods, by making them more expensive by TAXING IMPORTS.

Trump cannot impose taxes or tariffs, nor can any other president. That has to be done by Congress...

37 posted on 08/12/2015 8:18:24 AM PDT by CA Conservative (Texan by birth, Californian by circumstance)
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To: Cringing Negativism Network

How can he do that?


89 posted on 08/12/2015 9:22:45 AM PDT by WayneS (Yeah, it's probably sarcasm...)
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