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Posted on 08/11/2025 12:10:56 PM PDT by RandFan
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Hey Paul, tariffs are constitutional.
Why don’t you rail against the $3+ trillion, 80%+ unconstitutional portion of the federal gov’t which is draining this country dry?????
After that, we’ll see about the tariffs...
In fairness he does that as well ...
Idiots like Rand Paul never explain why if tariffs are so bad for the United States to implement, then why did all the other nations of the world impose them on our products when we did not impose them of their products.
Rand’s 15 minutes are up.
The EU lowering import tariffs should be deflationary in the EU.
The country pays most of the tariff which is on the wholesale price not retail.
Im for tariffs IF it results in elimination or at least substantial reduction in the federal income taxes, such as
1. end tax on people over age 65
2. end tax on sociable insecurity and all pensions and distributions from retirement accounts
3. end tax on the first $100,000 of taxable income
or just eliminate the dam*ed federal income tax altogether.
It is a terrible waste and drag on the American economy!
But if the fed income tax continues substantially AS IS, then I have to oppose tariffs as being just another d***ed federal tax on the American citizenry. The very LAST thing we need is more taxes!!!
just my 2 cents’ worth (before taxes)
Trump has done more for Kentuckians than Paul, Yurtle and Massie have done in their combined years sucking at the Kentucky taxpayers’ teat.
I'm tempted to ask your neighbor to give you another ass kicking.
He’s a CROOK.
Takes bribes from foreign nations to allow them to tariff American exports and not tariff their exports to the US.
Maybe somewhat, but the headlines on FR are all about his railing about something Trump did that he doesn’t like instead of railing against the utterly unconstitutional acts and agencies of the feds.
I don’t think Paul gets that or if he does, he certainly is not at the forefront calling for dismantling the HUGE unconstitutional portion of the federal gov’t.
Has Rand railed against all the tariffs other countries have imposed on the U.S?
TRAITOR!
over confiscatory federal income taxes (where only about 50% of people pay ZERO federal income tax).
Rand is correct, but he doesn’t address the huge “however,” the size of Tennessee: We can’t get back to the Madison model of governance without (1) a super majority in both Houses and a president willing to set the agenda of work towards that end, or (2) blowing up the entire government and starting over again.
Paul doesn’t address when Congress doesn’t do its job. The power of taxing foreign governments comes under the “General Welfare” powers. The framers of the Constitution could not and did not foresee a time when both political parties would not look after the General Welfare of the people they represent, and stay within their separate but equal “core powers.” They certainly don’t cooperate on what is/is not constitutional because they don’t have a single, consistent hermeneutic when interpreting the US Constitution. So it’s a wash.
So either amend the Constitution or abolish the government and put the militia in charge as the framers intended, because it is the only institution that is necessary for a free state. And start over again.
Or, let Trump do his thing. I love me some Rand Paul. He is correct, but he’s not a realist.
This is a classic example of textbook vs real-world. The sooner we get to a free market economy and free trade by ALL countries the better off we will be. But that will mean that there will be no more despots. I think we have a ways to go.
He seems very passionate about this
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