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To: central_va
Why is it either or? Why can't we reduce regulations, taxes and have a 20% import tariff?

Learn from history. Read about Smoot-Hawley. We had lower taxes and fewer regulations. The tariffs caused the great depression. Did you forget about that?

We need competition, not more taxes

27 posted on 04/21/2017 6:39:03 AM PDT by FatherofFive (Islam is EVIL and needs to be eradicated)
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To: FatherofFive
Read about Smoot-Hawley.

Ah yes the Smoot - Hawley lie/globlaist propaganda. It's you that needs to read.

Protectionism Didn't Cause the Great Depression

The debate over free trade is riddled with myth after myth. One that keeps resurfacing, no matter how many times it is discredited, is the idea that protectionism caused the Great Depression. One occasionally even hears that this same protectionism -- specifically, the Smoot-Hawley tariff of 1930 -- was responsible in significant part for World War Two! This is nonsense dreamed up for propaganda purposes by free traders, and it can easily be debunked.

You Free Traitor™ need better stuff. Your old lies are tiresome.

38 posted on 04/21/2017 8:41:48 AM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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