“[Cruz’s]tax proposal is specifically designed to tax imports but not export.”
Whoever called for taxing exports?
Yeah, I heard him say that more than once (taxing imports). That is protectionism, which is what all you Cruz-bots have been snickering at and condemning Trump for. That made me wonder why he tried to lecture Trump on the perils of slapping a supposed 45% tariff on Chinese goods when he called for the same methodology.
I did not define free trade, I merely gave the results of what is being called free trade, the concept that is destroying the economy of the United States. The same concept that Cruz embraced when he voted for TPA, which allows TPP to be fast-tracked and passed with only 51 votes.
As Buchanan pointed out, the United States built the greatest economic engine in world history based on protectionism.
The United States has disassembled the greatest economic engine in world history by adopting “free trade”.
Right now we tax exports. Everyone calling for the current system is calling for taxing exports. That is one of the UNFAIR reasons for our trade problems.
Over-regulation is another reason, of course.