Rand Paul Tries to Organize Republican Senators AGAINST Trump’s Tariffs

TIME ^ | March 21 | Eric Cortellessa

[RandFan]

I hear Paul is getting it in the neck from Kentucky Bourbon industry slapped with retaliatory 125% tariffs. Kentucky is being hit hard...

[lee martell]

Your explanation is very useful. Now I get why Rand would make such a move. He gets feedback straight from his constituents. Maybe some form of compromise can be found something tarrif related that people in that part of the country would eventually benefit by.

[Governor Dinwiddie]

Yeah, well people drink too much anyway. It's bad for your liver. And if you get caught
drunk driving, well that's bad. America is more important to me than liquor makers.

Here's my feeling about tariffs:

1. President Trump said it.
2. I believe it.
3. That settles it.

[imabadboy99]

dumb move Rand

[Dr. Franklin]

For anyone who wants to end federal income tax on living, breathing citizens, tariffs are a great alternative source of revenue for the feds. So, to oppose tariffs is to support the income tax.

[SoConPubbie]

Breitbart Business Digest: Why Tariffs Do Not—and Cannot—Cause Inflation

[SoConPubbie]

Rand Paul is making himself an enemy of MAGA!

[RandFan]

I’m not a drinker and i find Bourbon disagreeable and putrid but many love it. Also it’s already pretty expensive so to get hit with 125% tariff is a death knell,.

I like a soda for my sins

[DHerion]

Rand Paul’s blind devotion to free trade is one of the reason I don’t like Libertarianism...that philosophy can only work if everyone is a Libertarian. He only thinks about the consumer but one must produce before one can consume.

[sjmjax]

I generally like Rand Paul.

However it demonstrates once again that until recently…
The Democrats organize like the Borg.
Republicans are like herding cats.

[Governor Dinwiddie]

There is no tariff for countries which play fair. If the E.U. doesn't play fair, then they brought it upon themselves.

[RandFan]

” By resisting parts of the Trump agenda, Paul may be setting himself on a collision course for 2028, when he’s up for reelection. “The thing about Trump,” says a senior GOP Senate aide. “He has a very long memory.”

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I wouldnt call him an enemy of MAGA he’s solid on other issues and is taking a big risk opposing the tariffs

[dp0622]

That’s a terrifyingly naive and closed eyed approch to decision making :)

I love what Trump is doing...but I dont believe anything just because ANYONE said it without doing some research on my own.

Or else that’s how dictators are born :)

And also I dont think I want you being the morality police :)

I’m guessing there’s some things in your life that people would like to see banned and/or are at the bottom of their lists.

And if you dont drive after drinking...that problem is solved.

And putting first time offenders away for 10 years wouldn’t hurt

[Bikkuri]

He’s a Liberaltarian..

[doc maverick]

LOL! Very true.

[dp0622]

I think the global economy is much more complext than “let’s tariff them back” in some situations.

Trump is literally saving the United States..mostly single handedly.

But there’s only one God. And only He gets to be infallible :)

Some of the tariff moves are right...some just are not going to save industries in the US that will never compete with 100,000 dollar a year salaries plus benefits for what is basically manual labor.

[Governor Dinwiddie]

The price of American whiskey is likely to go down if there is less foreign demand. It only really hurts foreigners.

President Trump wants fair play. Canada's 300% tariff on dairy products is outrageous. It makes 25% tariff on whiskey look like nothing.

[logi_cal869]

I always suspected that he was a closet idiot.

Evidence.

[logi_cal869]

That, or he received photos of his children in a manila envelope...

[Paladin2]

Raise his Internal Revenue Federal Income rate above 100%.

Rand is totally daft here.