Yeah, kinda like subsidies are a tax on all who don't receive them, and yet have to pay them. Right? Like farm and energy subsidies? #hypocrite
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Right. When have I supported farm and energy subsidies? You must be new here.
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Never voted for the farm bill or any wind, solar, or ethanol subsidies?
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The second bill George Washington signed was a tariff bill
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Imposing strict standards on American businesses then importing goods from companies and countries that don't have to meet those standards is actually picking winners and losers.
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This the best case I've seen in favor of tariffs. We do have high standards, that must be met under penalty of law. If China/India had to meet those same standards their prices would increase.
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Do we enact tariffs, or demand other countries meet our standards for employees, social programs, ect.? How do achieve a truly equal trade?
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I tagged you at the end of a thread I did the other day, rather than rehash it here
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Yeah, I read it before. It's why I think pointing out all the hidden costs mandated by our gov, is the best case for tariffs, and I'm not big on tariffs. Those extra costs aren't something people think about.
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Speaking of corporate welfare, let me cite UMich econ PhD
@DeanBaker13 on perhaps the largest example of corporate welfare: "eliminating patent and related protections on prescription drugs would likely [save] more than $370 billion a year or 1.9 percent of GDP." -
He also wrote this about the likely minimal effect of these tariffs:http://cepr.net/blogs/beat-the-press/down-on-the-farm-more-hysteria-about-steel-tariffs …
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Taxation is Theft and tariffs are too!

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Expect nothing less from a Republican administration.
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Equating tariffs on manufactured goods with tariffs on raw materials is textbook ignorance.
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I am not sure that is true, but steel isn't a raw material, in any case.
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No, but it's an input to many other products.
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And tires aren’t? Lol
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Uh, tires may be a component or a replacement part, but they aren't really an input. Not that it really matters that much, tariffs are bad policy either way.
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Doesn’t matter, I guess was my ultimate point. Agree, tariffs are terrible.
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