BLAST FROM THE PAST 12/14/2010 TRUMP: I would tax Chinese products and I tax them very high ... 'Obama totally over his head' |
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scream-of-consciousness; "If you're trying to change minds and influence people it's probably not a good idea to say that virtually all elected Democrats are liars, but what the hell."
BLAST FROM THE PAST 12/14/2010 TRUMP: I would tax Chinese products and I tax them very high ... 'Obama totally over his head' |
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"If the number of Islamic terror attacks continues at the current rate, candlelight vigils will soon be the number-one cause of global warming. " |
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"TRUMP: I would tax Chinese products and I tax them very high."
Yes, because protectionism (i.e. Smoot-Hawley) worked SO well right before the Great Depression, too. Tariff wars never work, but only cause greater financial problems than they attempt to cure.
Trump may understand finance (and he's been proven to be shaky there too, but when it comes to economics, he's a complete idiot.
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Digging up the 2007 Curmudgeonly and Skeptical archives, you will find I predicted the first guy to promise a closed Mexican border would clinch the presidency. Obviously Donald is a C&G reader.
They used to tax the hell out of a lot of imports, then some, like the japs, started building them here.
Works pretty well, and they tend to stay out of the UAW, always a plus.
President Hoover raised tariffs. The result was that other countries imposed tariffs on us. That lead to the Great Depression.