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To: Jim 0216

I support Trump but sharply disagree with his views on trade which are basically about imposing tariffs (taxes) which in turn hurt the American consumer and the American economy and are thus counter-productive, and utterly fail to attack the underlying root causes of businesses fleeing America.
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Are u kidding.

Do this> Tariffs on countries without fair cost of labor, ie. Asia and all if Latin America where low cost of labor because of no social services and little regulation combined with traded deals send jobs over seas and have created near serdfom here, for those without College Edu. Also, tariffs incentivize companies to stay on shore. And yes it will work. Higher wages always better than cheap stuff.


86 posted on 03/15/2016 8:43:30 AM PDT by QuigleyDU
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To: QuigleyDU

Don’t try to argue with the free trade guys, they have their talking points down.... and won’t accept any other view.

They always ignore, that if the cost of importing goes up, domestic production will increase, raising wages and opportunities here to more than compensate for the fact that your wal mart items now cost you 5-10% more.


89 posted on 03/15/2016 8:46:49 AM PDT by HamiltonJay
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To: QuigleyDU

Please read post #78 carefully and consider, then see what you think.


106 posted on 03/15/2016 9:14:12 AM PDT by Jim W N
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