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Restricting Trade Is Calamitous Policy
The Foundation for Economic Education (FEE) ^ | Wednesday, January 25, 2017 | Cathy Reisenwitz

Posted on 01/25/2017 8:52:08 PM PST by TBP

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To: TBP
If tehy wanted to make a free trade agreement, they should just write a one-pager saying “There shall be no trade barriers among these countries.” Simple.

Anything else is NOT free trade.

Perfect.

61 posted on 01/25/2017 9:33:19 PM PST by gogeo (But he's not a conserrrrrvative!)
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To: Pelham
Oh, old pie in the sky, even stupider than DEM "ideas", LOSERTARIAN drivel.

I'm old enough to remember when the LP was started and how it was cobbled together...somewhat akin to an old Chinese restaurant menu order: "Oh I'll take so-and so from column A and three of this-and-that from column B!" Replace the columns with GOP, DEM, Marxist, and completely crazy garbage from trhe old hippie movement and you get "LIBERTARIANISM" !

62 posted on 01/25/2017 9:34:41 PM PST by nopardons
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To: Repeal The 17th

And service jobs are more secure and will keep our Nation strong and independent? You are so right.
The people that are pushing this line are traitors to America. Whose interests are they acting for?


63 posted on 01/25/2017 9:35:32 PM PST by JayGalt
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To: TBP

“Protectionism” You can stow that happy crappy.
If your boys are anything like Club For Growth, they’d better update their resumes.
MAGA!


64 posted on 01/25/2017 9:35:33 PM PST by tumblindice (America's founding fathers, all armed conservatives)
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To: 1rudeboy
And just WHAT makes you assume that I am some wetback, La Raza loving female?

Obviously, you aren't up for this debate.

65 posted on 01/25/2017 9:36:49 PM PST by nopardons
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To: 1rudeboy

And that gem is your idea of logic.

When you stop using that copy of Copi’s Logic for a doorstop look up Genetic Fallacy.


66 posted on 01/25/2017 9:37:16 PM PST by Pelham (the refusal to Deport is defacto Amnesty)
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To: nopardons

I responded the same way to you as you responded to me, complete non sequitur.


67 posted on 01/25/2017 9:39:06 PM PST by 1rudeboy
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To: 1rudeboy

There’s “BLACK MARKET” business going on right here, in America and that has been so, since this nation was a bunch of different colonies. It is NOT how a NATION trades; except in some peoples’ minds, who dwell in the proverbial “white towers” and don’t actually have a “REAL” job, don’t own a company, and just have wetdreams ore nightmares, which they put to paper.


68 posted on 01/25/2017 9:41:44 PM PST by nopardons
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To: Pelham
"Logic" is your term, and apparently you don't know what the word means.

I merely provided notice that your vaunted source is barking, raving, moonbat.

69 posted on 01/25/2017 9:41:45 PM PST by 1rudeboy
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To: TBP
Since when does the government, any government produce anything for ‘free’. These deals are hatched by a few to benefit a few and pad a politicians reelection campaign. ‘We the people’ get the tab for campaigns funded by writers and first line benefactors of so called ‘free-trade’ deals.

Perhaps you so called ‘free-market’ types do not mind funding unemployment, and welfare in this nation.

70 posted on 01/25/2017 9:41:47 PM PST by Just mythoughts
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To: TBP

I expect our nation to engage in agreements where both sides benefit.

If an agreement destroys the jobs market in the United States, we’re going to have to suck it up and accept less trade.

Some folks acting as if what has been going on has no down-side.

We have tens of millions of people out of work. The federal government is having to dig deep to help them out in various ways. At the same time, government revenues lag due to payroll taxes that are not collected. At the same time, all the payroll money that would have been spent in the U.S., that would have served to support still other jobs, and payroll taxes from them and still others, is not taking place.

Is protectionism on some level the worst thing that could happen? Obviously not!

We have allowed the pendulum to swing too far in one direction. We need some equilibrium here.

There seems to be a theory out there in the netherworld that as long as trade is robust, it wouldn’t matter if there were only 10,000 private sector jobs in the nation.

I cannot buy into that nonsense any longer.


71 posted on 01/25/2017 9:42:51 PM PST by DoughtyOne (NeverTrump, a movement that was revealed to be a movement. Thank heaven we flushed!)
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To: nopardons

I get that, I hear it a lot. People telling me that I live in a “white tower” when I work 10-hour shifts, minimum.


72 posted on 01/25/2017 9:43:45 PM PST by 1rudeboy
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To: 1rudeboy
No you did NOT!

I didn't denigrate you with ethnic slurs and stereotyping.

OTOH...IF you REALLY want to play THAT game, I suggest that you rethink it, as I am far more clever and nasty than you can ever hope to compete with.

73 posted on 01/25/2017 9:45:41 PM PST by nopardons
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To: Just mythoughts
Oh, please elaborate: let's hear all about how the "'free market' types expanded welfare bennies to nearly everyone. Oh, wait . . . the "'free market' types" were on the outside looking in. Of course, even if the government created that mess, it's benevolent and wise enough to raise our taxes via tariffs elsewhere. What can possibly go wrong?
74 posted on 01/25/2017 9:48:44 PM PST by 1rudeboy
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To: 1rudeboy
Not YOU....I was referring to the FEE!

Your appalling lack of reading comprehension skills is only getting you into a larger hole.

QUIT NOW, BEFORE YOU HIT WATER AND DROWN!

75 posted on 01/25/2017 9:48:54 PM PST by nopardons
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To: nopardons

I think its time to sound the troll alert here. Someone may be having fun winding people up rather than having an honest discourse.


76 posted on 01/25/2017 9:50:01 PM PST by JayGalt
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To: TBP; DoughtyOne
I think that among the first bills passed by the First Congress and signed by President Washington was an expressly protective tariff bill written by Secretary of the Treasury Alexander Hamilton.

And that a system of protective tariffs was the basis of the American School of economics and was in effect for most of our history as we grew into the most powerful economy in the world.

77 posted on 01/25/2017 9:50:06 PM PST by Pelham (the refusal to Deport is defacto Amnesty)
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To: nopardons

Ah, yes. A Goddess of the Internet. Thank you for gracious warning.


78 posted on 01/25/2017 9:50:15 PM PST by 1rudeboy
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To: nopardons

FEE would be small l libertarian, not the Libertarian Party


79 posted on 01/25/2017 9:51:27 PM PST by Pelham (the refusal to Deport is defacto Amnesty)
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To: JayGalt

Personally, I think people shouldn’t discuss others behind their back. But go ahead, the ‘Report Abuse’ button is a click away.


80 posted on 01/25/2017 9:52:21 PM PST by 1rudeboy
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