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Trump Denies He’d Put 45 Percent Tariff on Imported Goods from China...
Washington Free Beacon ^ | 1/10/16 | David Rutz

Posted on 01/10/2016 7:53:21 AM PST by don-o

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Trump Denies He'd Put 45 Percent Tariff on Imported Goods from China: 'I Didn't Say I Would Do It'

"Dizzy, I'm so dizzy, my head is spinning..."

1 posted on 01/10/2016 7:53:21 AM PST by don-o
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To: don-o

Yeah....my guess is that they’re the same people that want to tax Homeland Americans that same amount..... money is money and sheep are sheep.


2 posted on 01/10/2016 7:55:19 AM PST by Gaffer
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To: don-o

LMAO. He must have recently made a great deal with Sum Ting Wong.


3 posted on 01/10/2016 7:56:08 AM PST by TADSLOS (A Ted Cruz Happy Warrior! GO TED!)
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To: don-o

It’s Trump’s negotiating strategy: Big ask with the intention of getting something significant, but considerably less. I prefer Cruz, but this is just the GOPe enablers trying to help Jebbie and Marco.


4 posted on 01/10/2016 7:59:52 AM PST by achilles2000 ("I'll agree to save the whales as long as we can deport the liberals")
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It's Trump's negotiating strategy:

The underlying assumption (fact) being the gnat like attention span of the LIV's.

5 posted on 01/10/2016 8:03:03 AM PST by don-o (I am Kenneth Carlisle - Waco 5/17/15)
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To: don-o

Since China does not believe in free markets and holds wages down for their slave workers, tariffs are good. Get the cost up to true market rate.


6 posted on 01/10/2016 8:03:28 AM PST by patq
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To: achilles2000

“It’s Trump’s negotiating strategy.”

This seems to be the go to talking point of every flip-flop Trump has ever made.

Considering that Trump is not presently negotiating, but rather campaigning, it does not hold water.


7 posted on 01/10/2016 8:04:48 AM PST by traderrob6
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To: don-o

But so many Trump supporters were all for a 45% tariff on Chinese imports when their candidate was for it. Are they against it now that Trump “never said” he would do it?


8 posted on 01/10/2016 8:05:26 AM PST by FerociousRabbit
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To: don-o

It’s up to 45% if the Chinese don’t behave themselves.


9 posted on 01/10/2016 8:12:19 AM PST by Sasparilla
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To: don-o

Tag line.


10 posted on 01/10/2016 8:14:54 AM PST by BobL (Who cares? He's going to build a wall and stop this invasion.)
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To: traderrob6

He’s negotiating with the electorate. Trying to find how many half baked bytes he can keep in the air at one time.


11 posted on 01/10/2016 8:15:08 AM PST by don-o (I am Kenneth Carlisle - Waco 5/17/15)
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To: traderrob6

It isn’t a talking point. It’s just Trump. Take it or leave it; it doesn’t matter to me.


12 posted on 01/10/2016 8:21:37 AM PST by achilles2000 ("I'll agree to save the whales as long as we can deport the liberals")
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To: don-o

For all you Cruz supporters, he didn’t whine about it being just a media question designed to trip him up, and refuse to answer it.


13 posted on 01/10/2016 8:27:08 AM PST by odawg
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To: don-o

I didn’t realize that was a presidential power.


14 posted on 01/10/2016 8:30:24 AM PST by GregoTX (Autonomous terrorism calls for autonomous defense)
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Picky, picky, picky.

It is because, shut up.


15 posted on 01/10/2016 8:32:23 AM PST by don-o (I am Kenneth Carlisle - Waco 5/17/15)
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To: Sasparilla
It’s up to 45% if the Chinese don’t behave themselves.

The ChiComs are destroying their own economy. They are doing it now. They are communists for cryin' out loud.

Under no circumstance should our Big Federal Government being taxing us 45% more.

16 posted on 01/10/2016 8:33:12 AM PST by FreeReign
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The rest of the World puts a value added tax on home and imported goods. Hence we pay for their governments. The Libertarian free traders cry fowl whenever we put a tariff on imported goods. American workers and businesses have
to cover taxes and medical care in the goods sold home and abroad. A value added tariff would level the field.


17 posted on 01/10/2016 8:33:48 AM PST by LoneRangerMassachusetts (behind enemy lines)
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To: traderrob6
This is the way that Trump avoids spending a large amount of his own money on his campaign. He makes ridiculous statements like his proposal of a 45 percent tariff on China in retaliation for unfair trade practices. Then, once he gets free media coverage, he walks back the proposal or denies that he ever made the statement at all. Just Trump being Trump.

The problem with the type of campaign that Trump is using is that the media coverage during the general campaign will not be so forgiving of his well documented flip-flopping. Will the media give him a free license to clarify his positions when the opponent is Hillary or Biden? I think not.

18 posted on 01/10/2016 8:35:06 AM PST by mconley22
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“Considering that Trump is not presently negotiating, but rather campaigning, it does not hold water.”

How do you know that other than it’s what you want to believe?

Trump could be pulling off his biggest DEAL of all.

Claiming he wants to be president when in fact he really wants someone else to be president.

With Trump you never know and that is exactly why I would never trust him.


19 posted on 01/10/2016 8:35:42 AM PST by IMR 4350
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To: LoneRangerMassachusetts

Well. Should not a serious candidate be clear and consistent on what he is and is not proposing?

Somebody help me out here.


20 posted on 01/10/2016 8:36:19 AM PST by don-o (I am Kenneth Carlisle - Waco 5/17/15)
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