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US House candidate, MI-3

I defend #liberty and explain every vote at http://facebook.com/justinamash  • 'Laws must be general, equal, and certain.' —F.A. Hayek

Third District of Michigan
Joined January 2011

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    Justin Amash‏Verified account @justinamash Mar 7
    US House candidate, MI-3

    When you buy more from the grocery store than the grocery store buys from you, you have a trade deficit with the grocery store.

    12:05 PM - 7 Mar 2018
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      2. Justin Amash‏Verified account @justinamash Mar 7
        US House candidate, MI-3

        When any customer buys more from any business than the business buys from the customer, the customer has a trade deficit with the business.

        18 replies 160 retweets 869 likes
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      3. Justin Amash‏Verified account @justinamash Mar 7
        US House candidate, MI-3

        Trade deficits do not mean that anyone is taking advantage of anyone else. The grocery store will have a trade deficit with a farmer or supplier, just as you have a trade deficit with the grocery store.

        59 replies 368 retweets 1,340 likes
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      4. Justin Amash‏Verified account @justinamash Mar 7
        US House candidate, MI-3

        This basic economic concept applies to international transactions just as it applies to neighborhood transactions.

        16 replies 166 retweets 1,036 likes
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      5. Justin Amash‏Verified account @justinamash Mar 7
        US House candidate, MI-3

        Trade deficits are a feature, not a bug, of a system of voluntary exchange. Only in a (theoretical but not possible) system of total government control and central planning could trade deficits be eliminated—and that would be a world of universal slavery and extreme poverty.

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      2. Buster's View‏ @lkoneal Mar 7

        Luckily with free markets, there's always a better, different grocery store.

        11 replies 9 retweets 368 likes
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      4. Emily Vandermeulen‏ @EmVandermeulen Mar 7

        You mean like how the US subsidises cotton and dumps it in developing markets, forcing other cotton producers around the world to struggle immensely?

        5 replies 4 retweets 62 likes
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      6. Emily Vandermeulen‏ @EmVandermeulen Mar 7

        The fact is that the suffering of the manufacturing sector has more to do with Americans wanting to buy everything super cheap. Americans would not pay the prices that goods would cost if they were made in the US. That is a US problem, not a "the world are cheaters" problem.

        15 replies 7 retweets 103 likes
      7. Jeffrey Savage‏ @AfflictedMed Mar 7
        Replying to @EmVandermeulen @lkoneal and

        The US has never manufactured more than they do now. The jobs are just automated. They’re not coming back. Just like we aren’t all farmers or miners.

        6 replies 2 retweets 64 likes
      8. Emily Vandermeulen‏ @EmVandermeulen Mar 7
        Replying to @AfflictedMed @lkoneal and

        Well this is exactly my point. Why cry for jobs that are never coming back. Value the workforce you have now!

        3 replies 1 retweet 25 likes
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      2. Nicholas deSilentio‏ @NickTheSilent Mar 7
        Replying to @justinamash

        To solve this: place a tax on yourself for buying things from the grocery store to encourage yourself to grow your own food in a garden.

        1 reply 4 retweets 80 likes
      3. Bad News Mathews‏ @BadNews_Mathews Mar 7
        Replying to @NickTheSilent @justinamash

        Or make your own clothes, or build your own smart phone.

        4 replies 1 retweet 38 likes
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      5. Nick‏ @nfav80 Mar 7
        Replying to @imderecheretz @BadNews_Mathews and

        Comparative advantage. Google it.

        0 replies 1 retweet 7 likes
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      2. Dragon Empress‏ @DragonEmpressEn Mar 7
        Replying to @justinamash

        The US is not a consumer to the Chinese grocery store. We have a reciprocal trading relationship. They slap tariffs on our good to make themselves more competitive. We need to reciprocate in kind.

        3 replies 2 retweets 30 likes
      3. ATX Bearkat‏ @HillcoutryHack Mar 7
        Replying to @DragonEmpressEn @justinamash

        Tariffs are taxes. Punishing ones own citizens because other countries punish theirs makes no sense. -Thomas Sowell

        1 reply 1 retweet 18 likes
      4. Dragon Empress‏ @DragonEmpressEn Mar 7
        Replying to @HillcoutryHack @justinamash

        A booming US steel industry will bring in lots of US jobs, if we make enough steel ourselves, the prices will be low and everyone will benefit.

        9 replies 3 retweets 8 likes
      5. ATX Bearkat‏ @HillcoutryHack Mar 7
        Replying to @DragonEmpressEn @justinamash

        if we protect our steel with tariffs our steel will be high. steel jobs have been lost because of automation and wont come back. we do have huge manufacturing segment that employs 6.5 mil that need some imports of steel.

        2 replies 0 retweets 3 likes
      6. Huh‏ @Clutch_Gamer Mar 7
        Replying to @HillcoutryHack @justinamash

        And the "artificial jobs" that go back to steel because of the tariffs will take assets(man power) away from other sectors that are actually creating real value that don't need to be propped up. It starts a nasty cycle.

        1 reply 1 retweet 9 likes
      7. ATX Bearkat‏ @HillcoutryHack Mar 7
        Replying to @Clutch_Gamer @justinamash

        you sir get a gold star!

        1 reply 0 retweets 2 likes
      8. Huh‏ @Clutch_Gamer Mar 7
        Replying to @HillcoutryHack @justinamash

        Must be because I'm a baseball guy.

        0 replies 0 retweets 1 like
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