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To: Steelfish

Good an across the board tariff. That’s what we had for 180 years. That’s what we need.

After we have run a trade surplus for a few years and cut our debt in half, we can reduce it. In the mean-time we can use the proceeds to cut individual and corporate taxes, leaving American citizens with more of their hard earned money to spend in the American economy.

Our founding fathers viewed an import tariff as a voluntary tax paid only by those who wished to buy products made overseas instead of American products.

By the way, I believe the current WTO allows the imposition of tariffs in response to chronic trade deficits. If true, then we are there, and Trump may not even need Congresses approval to act.


25 posted on 12/04/2016 10:59:23 AM PST by DannyTN
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To: DannyTN
In the mean-time we can use the proceeds to...

...pay unemployment benefits to the millions of Americans making goods for export who lost their jobs due to retaliatory tariffs.

30 posted on 12/04/2016 11:06:47 AM PST by semimojo
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To: DannyTN

The WTO is a corrupt and biased org (against the US) like the UN. The WTO can stick it where the sun don’t shine.


45 posted on 12/04/2016 3:03:51 PM PST by SgtHooper (If you remember the 60's, YOU WEREN'T THERE!)
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