Posted on 04/03/2025 4:30:27 AM PDT by RandFan
@YALiberty
“One person is not allowed to raise taxes—the constitution forbids it.”
@SenRandPaul slams Trump’s tariffs as unconstitutional, calling them a tax on Americans— and he’s right.
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He does not mince his words Freepers and is adamant this policy is wrong, a tax and unconstitutional.
Does anyone have sympathy?
tariffs are NOT taxes, so:
how much have he and his father made
... by selling out the Republic?
Stuck on stupid
Talk talk talk. Trump is a doer.
In my view, the price point is the only concern if you do not care where a product is produced. Such a person does not care if his country produces even a single product of any kind or if your intent is to have a one world economy, where everybody earns the same wages globally.
Tariffs can always be adjusted once in place for maximum productivity, but no tariffs means no manufacturing base.
Where was he when the Supreme Court Roberts decided Obamacare was tax how constitutional was that?
Does the Constitution allow Biden to import millions of illegal aliens into the country? No.
Did Rand say a word of protest about it. No.
Rand is a mental case.
No. Randtard is a lousy demoncrap.
Uh-huh.https://freerepublic.com/focus/chat/4307876/posts?page=21#21The facts missing from this equation are all the punitive taxes/tariffs arrayed against US products around the world.
That inconvenient fact is NEVER brought up by ‘free traders’.
DJT implemented the tariffs as a bargaining chip and schiff/paul ignore the logical effects.
However, I will not ignore the fact that the administration has bungled badly in squandering a strong position by implementing the tariff policies haphazardly.
Evidence: The euroweenie confrontation over ukeland (combined with the looming failure of ceasefire negotiations) and the liberal election win in Canada.
I had hoped for a better launch of DJT’s 2nd administration but clearly Susie Wiles doesn’t know WTF she’s doing and my other hand is nearly full.
As far as all the ‘free traders’ out there: You can all kiss my backside. We need STRONG trade policy which benefits the US and Paul has presided over back-to-back administrations which enacted horrible trade policies, going so far as to support cheap, foreign made goods by saying,
“And so that savings, though, allows working-class people to have savings to get a television set, to go on vacation, to buy gas for their truck. So trade is really a good thing.”
He’s a dumbass.
Arguing that tariffs brought us the looming economic/fiscal problems is a delusion of idiocy. The pain of prior government policies at all levels is unavoidable (and unfortunately so it seems the looming conflict(s)).
I stand by it. You're beating a drum which is only going to get you branded a troll.
We’ve done things the same way since WWII and look where we are.
Ontario Premier Doug Ford said Wednesday on CNBC’s “Squawk Box” that if President Donald Trump removes tariffs, Canada will drop all of their tariffs.
Ask NYS’s thousands of defunct dairy farmers.
Interesting, isn’t it, that the message is coming from Ford, not Carney...
I’m souring on Rand. He doesn’t seem to accomplish anything, he’s just an impediment.
As a general statement, I would say that I wish Congress would actually do things. But, since they mostly don’t, I am thrilled that President Trump, at least, is a man of action.
And no manufacturing means no freedom or sovereignty. The UN will be governing our lives.
Everyone needs to read Ian Fletcher’s “Free trade doesn’t work”. The book exposes the globalist siren song that Klaus Schwab and every globalist (Lenin, Marx, etc.) since David Ricardo wrote his fallacious book in 1817. No nation became great by exporting vital industries period! Britain became great protecting and nurturing critical industries through tariffs. The USA copied the model and became greater. A nation that gives up vital industries through free trade is doomed…
If tariffs are not taxes, then who gets the collected tariffs?!? The federal government or the U.S. citizens or the domestic manufacturers?
If the federal government, then are rebates given or the income tax rates for U.S. citizens equivalently lowered to cancel out the increased cost of buying the higher priced foreign (or domestic) goods?
Rand, trade between parties won’t last if it is not fair, unless one of the parties insists on being suicidally stupid.
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