Donald Trump: Clueless About Free Trade

Townhall.com ^ | February 4, 2016 | Larry Elder

[Buckeye McFrog]

America has had a quarter-century experiment with “free trade” agreements.

The jury is in. At least with the voters.
They suck.

[BitWielder1]

Tariffs are the wrong answer, the Chinese will retaliate.
Lower taxes in the US and eliminate regulation that forced the jobs overseas in the first place would be better.

[Lib-Lickers 2]

Larry Elder is a good guy but he doesn’t get it either.. we always go into these trade negotiations ready to give away the farm and the other side always knows it

[dforest]

Not that anyone cares anymore, but Obama signed the TPP yesterday.

Thanks to all who contributed to that.

[Vic S]

At the Bildeberg meeting @ Baden-Baden, Germany in 1991 David Rockefeller walked up to Bill Clinton and asked him what he thought about NAFTA. Clinton replied, “If it’s important to you, Mr Rockefeller, it’s important to me.” Rockefeller replied, “Thank you, Mr President.”

[major-pelham]

Retaliate? WTF are you talking about? If this was boxing they’d have stopped it five years ago.

[Pravious]

Wow! A Trump hit piece? Here on Free Republic!

Coming Up:

TRUMP KICKS PUPPY. REFUSES TO APOLOGIZE.
TRUMP NEEDS HELP GETTING DRESSED IN THE MORNING
POLLS PROVE VOTERS FAVOR CANDIDATES WITH FOUR LETTERS IN THEIR NAME
CRUZ: THIS IS A ONE MAN RACE AND I’M THE ONE

Oh, wait... that last one is real...

[Lib-Lickers 2]

you mean some of our great senatorial candidates?

[pgkdan]

I'm so sick of this 'Free Trade' bull shit I could scream! The Chamber of Commerce republicans always start chattering about free trade any time someone notices that our trade policies are killing jobs in THIS country! What the hell difference does it make if we can get cheap foreign made goods if a third of the population is unemployed or underemployed to the extent that they can barely afford to keep a roof over their heads? I'm not talking about welfare queens who get their living handed to them. I'm talking about proud, independence minded Americans who have been given the shaft by our government all under the guise of "free Trade"!

This has to end and Trump's the only guy in the race with the balls to talk about it.

[central_va]

the Chinese will retaliate.

Another lie. The Chinese already slap hefty duties on all of our exports to them.

[navet97]

Once Trump gets Mexico to pay for the wall everything will be Even Steven! /s

[central_va]

IBTSHL

(In Before the Smoot-Hawley Lie )

[trebb]

Sounds like a form of NIMBY argument - we really need to do something to level the playing field for Americans, but anything we do will cause some short to mid-term discomfort for many so we maybe ought to not do anything because we’re comfortable with what we complain about daily....

[grania]

....because I really, really want the globalist defense of what they’ve done to the US economy

[dforest]

Yes, all of those fraudmeisters.

Lil Teddy had nuttin’ ta do wif it though. /huge sarc

[Vic S]

I shipped a pair of shoes to a girlfriend in Montreal (I'm in California) for her birthday and put on the card that the shoes were worth over $250. She had to pay a duty of $75 (if I remember correctly). How does this North American Free Trade stuff work?

[central_va]

How does this North American Free Trade stuff work?

It works like this: picture an employed factory worker with an executive pissing down his back and telling him its raining.

[sickoflibs]

I wouldn’t be surprised if Trump if nominated called for a VAT tax.

[SubMareener]

Tariffs are the wrong answer, the Chinese will retaliate.
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HELLO! The Chinese already impose tariffs on what little of our goods they import from us. The problem with the “free trade” agreements is that they are only “free” in one direction.

You have to ask yourself, do I believe someone who actually participates in international commerce, or do I believe someone who writes and talks about international commerce?

Larry Elder! Who Knew! This Trump campaign is better that having Madame Defarge knitting the names of everyone to be killed in the French revolution! By the end of this, all the GOPee will be outed!