Posted on 05/09/2016 5:02:24 PM PDT by Extremely Extreme Extremist
One area in which Trump can be nailed down is his overall view of trade. As I explained at Conservative Review, when it comes to Trump’s own financial dealings, he is an unrepentant globalist, from which he has made a fortune. But these days, as he runs for president, the billionaire is a radical protectionist who has repeatedly declared his intention to impose massive tariffs aimed at the economies of other countries, such as Japan and Mexico, and a forty-five percent tariff on products from China. Such broad tariffs would most certainly result in retaliation by the targeted countries. This is a sure job-killer that would also drive up costs of everyday products to low- and middle-class Americans. The net result: economic misery, not just for those hard-working, tax-paying Americans who work in industries that rely on international commerce and trade, but mostly everyone.
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You’re so lost in space...
Like Frodo, Mark better take that ring off before the darkness consumes him.
“...it is vote-getting speech.”
You mean, when Trump was interviewed by Oprah Winfrey in 1988, and he was talking about how the trade deals were destroying the American economy, he was saying it only to get votes in 2016?
You Cruz-bot morons will just not give it up.
Except Reagan was more Bernie than George Washington, who was right in line with Trump.
“Levin says Trump is a unrepentant globalist”
The lying fool knows how to pick his terms. Trump builds globally, and Levin is trying to twist that around to promote his bile.
Levin and Rush are both worthless at this point. Rush should retire. Levin may follow Beck down the bankruptcy road....
Alot. There may not be a political solution to our differences. It is time to find out.
That callers point was better than his ability to express it.
Reagan on the occasion of lifting the special Harley Davidson tariff:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zzs3Z1o66Yk
We’ll need one for Glenn Beck, too.
You're 100 percent right, Levin is following Beck off the deep end.
Look folks, Trump’s tirades about tariffs is solely meant to gain the support of unions and people whose jobs have been shipped overseas...it is not a policy platform, it is vote-getting speech.
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That’s fine. But he has 90% of the Freepers arguing in favor of his goofy statements about tariffs. Free Republic now has majority support for adding burdensome taxes on Americans who want to buy iPhones from China. They believe adding 46% to the price of an iPad is just a jolly good idea.
Amazing transformation. And you think it is just a ploy. I hope you are right.
Mark Levin go away
Traditionally the Republican party has been the party of tariffs and protections. Just look at the 1924 party platform on tariffs
We reaffirm our belief in the protective tariff to extend needed protection to our productive industries. We believe in protection as a national policy, with due and equal regard to all sections and to all classes. It is only by adherence to such a policy that the well being of the consumers can be safeguarded that there can be assured to American agriculture, to American labor and to American manufacturers a return to perpetrate American standards of life. A protective tariff is designed to support the high American economic level of life for the average family and to prevent a lowering to the levels of economic life prevailing in other lands.
In the history of the nation the protective tariff system has ever justified itself by restoring confidence, promoting industrial activity and employment, enormously increasing our purchasing power and bringing increased prosperity to all our people.
The tariff protection to our industry works for increased consumption of domestic agricultural products by an employed population instead of one unable to purchase the necessities of life. Without the strict maintenance of the tariff principle our farmers will need always to compete with cheap lands and cheap labor abroad and with lower standards of living.
The enormous value of the protective principle has once more been demonstrated by the emergency tariff act of 1921 and the tariff act of 1922.
We assert our belief in the elastic provision adopted by congress in the tariff act of 1922 providing for a method of readjusting the tariff rates and the classifications in order to meet changing economic conditions when such changed conditions are brought to the attention of the president by complaint or application.
We believe that the power to increase or decrease any rate of duty provided in the tariff furnishes a safeguard on the one hand against excessive taxes and on the other hand against too high customs charges.
The wise provisions of this section of the tariff act afford ample opportunity for tariff duties to be adjusted after a hearing in order that they may cover the actual differences in the cost of production in the United States and the principal competing countries of the world.
We also believe that the application of this provision of the tariff act will contribute to business stability by making unnecessary general disturbances which are usually incident to general tariff revisions.
Reagan would have never supported the current global trade agreements although he did believe in trading overseas. He was an American First kind of guy.
How come when Donald speaks, they take every word literally, when it is meant as a negotiating point. But when Bill Clinton debates what the meaning of “is” is, the media nods in approval?
I don’t think I can listen to levin any more.
Trump’s tariff proposals hardly seem massive, especially compared to the taxation on domestic businesses. Tariffs seem the most conservative way to raise revenue seeing as it was how the government did it back when the country was just getting started.
How do we know Trump isn’t being extreme now in order to Negotiate later?
I only would worry what direction he would negotiate in...
Because of the time Levin was broadcast in my area I wasn’t able to listen everyday. I found on YouTube where almost all of his shows are available. This past weekend I listened to his latest available show.
It was Levin but it didn’t sound like him. He asked for Trump supporters to call in and explain why they supported Trump. When they did it was nothing but a trap. No matter what they said he’d stop them in mid sentence and pin them down on specific questions rather than allow them to say why they liked about Trump. He would yell and mock some of the callers.
It was an ambush rather than a discussion. In all the years I was able to listen to Levin, I’ve never heard him be so antagonistic.
After he badgered 3 or 4 pro Trumpers, I turned it off.
Trump never wanted Levin’s endorsement.
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