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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
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    1. 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.

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      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.

      12:05 PM - 7 Mar 2018
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        2. 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.

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        3. 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.

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        4. 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. Paul‏ @CaptKona Mar 7
          Replying to @justinamash

          The United States wants to be the store, not the customer.

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        3. Sushi-o-path‏ @JurisImprudent Mar 8
          Replying to @CaptKona @justinamash

          In the analogy, the customer would have a day job as (for example) a VP of sales at Ford. Is his time better spent going to the store to buy a sandwich our growing the vegetables and making the sandwich himself? Which activity makes him wealthier?

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        4. EdwZactly ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️‏ @edw_zactly Mar 8
          Replying to @JurisImprudent @alllibertynews and

          Going 2d Store makes him wealthier U need to consider the time n money spent growing n raising the meat vegetables and bread for the sandwich not to mention the waste What if the Ford Employee wants a condiment like Mayo on his sandwich Plus the Store owner may buy a Ford one day

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        1. SwayNetwork‏ @SwayNetwork Mar 14
          Replying to @justinamash

          no, there is not. you trade money for food. the grocery store gives you as much food as the value of the money you have.

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        1. Miles Martin‏ @milesmartin17 Mar 8
          Replying to @justinamash

          And when a somebody persistently runs deficits with the set of businesses he trades with, he goes bankrupt. Yay!

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        1. Layla-Gail O'Brien ‏ @lgo_arch Mar 7
          Replying to @justinamash

          When we start making deals with local businesses to supply them things as A PART of the condition to purchasing their things it will be an equivalent analogy.

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        1. allgood‏ @SteinChaz Mar 7
          Replying to @justinamash

          So if I buy my car in another state instead of my hometown dealer, it does not effect the dealership? It's employees? The local businesses where that employees shop? The dealership's Bank? The local government with less revenue from the dealer, employee, local business?

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        1. Freedom B4 Democracy‏ @FreeB4Democracy Mar 7
          Replying to @justinamash

          Right. And when you work more for an employer than they work for you, you get a trade surplus. #FreeMarket

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        1. TPS Report 🗽‏ @ShoNuf77 Mar 7
          Replying to @justinamash

          Well Trump in his businesses usually stiffs his suppliers so........

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        1. LoriT‏ @LeeLoriT411 Mar 9
          Replying to @justinamash @jacob_kosmicki

          Who owns you Justin? Chamber of Commerce?

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        1. IBsteve‏ @Leika2056 Mar 8
          Replying to @justinamash

          We get it...but why don't you do something brave and pass legislation to stop the far left leader of your party.

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        1. Michael B. Cizmar‏ @michaelcizmar Mar 8
          Replying to @justinamash

          Pros and Cons of actual trade deficits...https://www.investopedia.com/articles/investing/051515/pros-cons-trade-deficit.asp …

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        1. Papist Bot‏ @eastpointpapist Mar 7
          Replying to @justinamash

          But the business isn't typically restricting their employees from buying your goods and services. This is a very old trope.

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        1. Jumpin' Jack Sparrow‏ @ImUrPirate Mar 7
          Replying to @justinamash

          True, like when a Wal-Mart grocery or Trader Joe’s puts the local farm stands or farm-to-table restaurants out of business with cheap imported foods; - -you can either apply a local zoning tax on those predatory businesses; or charge more taxes on imported foods. There’s one Fixpic.twitter.com/W8Hlz2ohwi

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        1. Saul Alinsky‏ @TheRealAlinsky Mar 7
          Replying to @justinamash

          Except that’s not the issue, it’s a straw man. It’s the subsidies stupid.

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