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To: GrootheWanderer

“The Constitution clearly reserves the right to set taxes to Congress.”

Yet the Constitution clearly gives the Negotiations for Trade in the power of the Executive. Tariffs are trade, not taxes anymore. This prevents the executive from negotiating trade deals and doing every day diplomacy. That’s clearly executive in the Constitution.

I see both arguments as valid.

The question is how to resolve the issue, and I think that Legislative needs to allow the Executive freedom to negotiate including ‘tariffs’, rather than use the power over the military to ‘pursued’ other nations.


44 posted on 02/20/2026 7:52:48 AM PST by Pete Dovgan
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To: Pete Dovgan

“Yet the Constitution clearly gives the Negotiations for Trade in the power of the Executive.”

You forgot the rest of that, you know, where the president then submits the results of his negotiations to congress for approval.


102 posted on 02/20/2026 9:21:29 PM PST by rottweiller_inc (Lupus urbem intravit. Fulminis ictu vultures super turrem exanimat.)
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