Posted on 03/22/2022 11:09:21 PM PDT by Berlin_Freeper
The US has agreed to ease Trump-era tariffs on UK steel and aluminium shipments, resolving an issue that had strained relations between the allies.
The move follows earlier deals with the European Union and Japan over the controversial taxes, which were imposed by former President Donald Trump in 2018 in the name of national security.
In exchange, the UK will suspend extra taxes it had put on US products such as bourbon and Levi's jeans.
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The campaign to weaken America continues.
Nothing but unadulterated internal destruction of our republic from an illegally installed federal government,keep your powder dry.
Here we go again - Biden “Leading the NWO” ????????? While leaving the US in the ditch.
Lying Joe could not leas a starving person to a steak.
Bidens a disgusting pervert - how the heck this country allowed this is beyond me....and still allows it.
It is actually quite simple how it has happened: Demographics is destiny.
I’M with you.
Sometimes I just want to throw up my hands and forget the news until the next election - which I’m not convinced is going to happen.
Here they are and operate
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Dems at work. They are the America Last party.
What did we get in this deal, nothing.
John Kerry’s son in law is an Iranian. We
enrich enemies and screw over patriots.
Demographics and culture. Every time over the past few decades any of us turned our heads while yet another sin became first normalized, and then “celebrated”, we were helping to sow the seeds of our eventual destruction. When we quietly went along with the Left’s efforts to destigmatize every behavior and practice that had previously been considered shameful, we were unwittingly helping them toward their goal. And every time politicians on the Right shied away from what they tried to marginalize as only “social issues”, they abandoned the vital character necessary to remain a free and prosperous nation.
John Adams warned us when he said, “Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.” What he meant was that unless the American people remained a morally upright, virtuous people, whose passions were restrained by an external (God-given) moral code, then the unprecedented liberty provided by the American system of government would become nothing more than a license to do evil. We have abundant proof in our time of the wisdom of this statement. When the People become morally corrupt, they naturally elect leaders who are as corrupt as they are, leading to decisions that are destructive of the nation as a whole.
We can point at the Leftists all we want (and they deserve scorn), but the tipping point came when too many of us on this side of the divide compromised our principles just a little bit here (because we love our “gay” son, and therefore can’t really condemn his lifestyle), or dabbled in hedonism there (drugs aren’t really that bad - heck, they should just be legalized), or kept incrementally justifying more and worse in our minds in order to avoid conflict (“gay marriage” doesn’t affect me - no reason to die on that hill). Many of us LIED to ourselves, over and over again, sometimes in what seemed like small ways, but all of it added up over time into helping build the gallows for our own hanging. We think we were avoiding pain at times when uncompromisingly standing on principle would have been “inconvenient”, but we were instead guaranteeing our eventual demise.
And while there are certainly some on our side who have held steadfast to solid moral principles, far too many have waffled and rationalized when they didn’t want to feel uncomfortable around friends or family, or didn’t want to be ostracized in their work or social circles. I’ve seen it numerous times right here, with the more Libertarian and/or establishment-leaning folks wanting to dismiss concerns about social degradation, and rationalize tolerance for, and even full acceptance of practices like drug use, homosexuality, and abortion.
We’re all swimming in a societal sewer these days which can make us lose perspective on how crystal clear clean water used to be. We also easily forget how diligent we have to be to maintain the water’s clarity.
We can’t afford to shrug as small drops of sewage drip…drip…drip into the water over time, by telling ourselves, “Well, it’s only a small drop - it won’t hurt anything. Not worth dying on that hill.” And we can’t turn things around by just closing the sewage valve a turn or two. If we truly want to return to a time when this nation was in far better shape, then we have to return to the principles and behaviors that made it that way. No one on the other side wants to do that, and I’m afraid far too many even on our side secretly don’t want to return to what they would deride as a “Beaver Cleaver” lifestyle. Well then, we get what we deserve.
I have always believed Clinton, Obama, and Biden, are God’s judgment on America. They are reprobates, and they are simply doing what reprobates do. (Romans 1)
“the UK will suspend extra taxes it had put on US products such as bourbon and Levi’s jeans”
The pair of Levi’s I am wearing in the UK at this moment are unlikely to have been made in the US.
That’s the problem for the US right there.
Bravo and thank you!
When I saw Levis mentioned my first thought was, those aren't American, they are chinese.
The U.S. Constitution gives Congress exclusive power to lay and collect taxes and tariffs.
Who better to pay taxes than those buying foreign made goods using foreign labor? A lot of Limbiciles around here love the income tax but hate the tariff. To me, the best tax of all is the tariff. They should read what the founders like George Washington thought about the tariff. They were all pro tariff, all of them.
What a Policy.
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