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Bunk.

Bump.

Most intriguing policy idea from the GOP meeting at the Capitol Hill Club this morning: Trump briefly floated the concept of eliminating the income tax and replacing it with tariffs. pic.twitter.com/hw0k8gwlGa — Thomas Massie (@RepThomasMassie) June 13, 2024

It also homogenizes them to the lowest common denominator of wealth and of liberty.

Free traders will sell their birthright for a mess of pottage every time.

And therefore for the individual in the long run.

If you think the black market isn't managed by organized crime you are sadly mistaken. And neither Ron nor Rand support open borders like CCT does. But they are still supporting a globalist agenda in supporting free trade, they've been brainwashed on the topic like so many have been.

A False Narrative, Based on Bad Data As noted above, for decades, open-borders proponents have parroted the same narrative: “Illegal aliens commit less crime than native-born citizens.” However, this claim typically rests on studies that manipulate data in order to support the fictitious “illegal aliens = less crime” narrative. Why are the majority of studies of illegal alien criminality so flawed? First, as Peter Kirsanow, of National Review notes, “Illegal-immigrant crime calculations conveniently and invariably steal a base by leaving out the millions of crimes committed by illegal immigrants related to procuring fraudulent social security numbers, obtaining false drivers’ licenses, using fraudulent green cards, and improperly accessing public benefits.” That error is then compounded when researchers intentionally elect to leave out broad classes of crimes for example, drug offenses — as the Cato Institute frequently does. Secondly, most federal, state and local government agencies do not collect data on the rates at which illegal aliens are convicted of crimes. Most likely, this is due to political correctness, and a desire to keep the truth about the number of crimes committed by illegal aliens from coming to light. Peter Kirsanow is one of the few who has commented openly on this tendency. He states, “Unfortunately, almost every public official not named Jeff Sessions guards against disclosure of illegal-immigrant crime data more tenaciously than disclosure of nuclear launch codes.” Regardless of why this information is not collected, the end result is that there are a limited number of sources for obtaining data on crimes committed by known illegal aliens. Finally, most researchers tend to ignore the few established sources that provide data on criminal acts by known illegal aliens. They point to all types of alleged, and typically baseless, “flaws” in this data, ranging from “limited sample size” to an inability to determine whether illegal aliens are being counted more than once. In actuality, however, the only real flaw, from the perspective of mainstream research organizations, is that examinations of data on criminal activity by known illegal aliens tend to establish that those who enter the U.S. in violation of our immigration laws also commit other crimes at a higher rate. This should not be surprising to anyone. The simple fact that illegal aliens violated American immigration laws – and must continuously violate other federal, state and local laws in order to mask their ongoing illegal presence in this country – demonstrates a blatant lack of respect for the rule of law. Getting A Realistic Portrait Of Illegal Alien Crime How FAIR Researched This Issue

A False Narrative, Based on Bad Data As noted above, for decades, open-borders proponents have parroted the same narrative: “Illegal aliens commit less crime than native-born citizens.” However, this claim typically rests on studies that manipulate data in order to support the fictitious “illegal aliens = less crime” narrative. Why are the majority of studies of illegal alien criminality so flawed? First, as Peter Kirsanow, of National Review notes, “Illegal-immigrant crime calculations conveniently and invariably steal a base by leaving out the millions of crimes committed by illegal immigrants related to procuring fraudulent social security numbers, obtaining false drivers’ licenses, using fraudulent green cards, and improperly accessing public benefits.” That error is then compounded when researchers intentionally elect to leave out broad classes of crimes for example, drug offenses — as the Cato Institute frequently does. Secondly, most federal, state and local government agencies do not collect data on the rates at which illegal aliens are convicted of crimes. Most likely, this is due to political correctness, and a desire to keep the truth about the number of crimes committed by illegal aliens from coming to light. Peter Kirsanow is one of the few who has commented openly on this tendency. He states, “Unfortunately, almost every public official not named Jeff Sessions guards against disclosure of illegal-immigrant crime data more tenaciously than disclosure of nuclear launch codes.” Regardless of why this information is not collected, the end result is that there are a limited number of sources for obtaining data on crimes committed by known illegal aliens. Finally, most researchers tend to ignore the few established sources that provide data on criminal acts by known illegal aliens. They point to all types of alleged, and typically baseless, “flaws” in this data, ranging from “limited sample size” to an inability to determine whether illegal aliens are being counted more than once. In actuality, however, the only real flaw, from the perspective of mainstream research organizations, is that examinations of data on criminal activity by known illegal aliens tend to establish that those who enter the U.S. in violation of our immigration laws also commit other crimes at a higher rate. This should not be surprising to anyone. The simple fact that illegal aliens violated American immigration laws – and must continuously violate other federal, state and local laws in order to mask their ongoing illegal presence in this country – demonstrates a blatant lack of respect for the rule of law. Getting A Realistic Portrait Of Illegal Alien Crime How FAIR Researched This Issue This report examines the rate at which illegal aliens are incarcerated in state and local correc- tional facilities after being convicted of a crime. To determine that rate: We analyzed incarceration data from the federal government’s State Criminal Alien Assistance Program (SCAAP) and compared it to the public records of state and local prisons. Via SCAAP, state entities apply to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to obtain reimbursement for the costs associated with incarcerating illegal aliens.

And leftist jurisdictions refuse to prosecute and lie about their status if they do record the crime.

You can repeat that all you want, and it won't change the fact that it's exactly the same as the useful idiots shouting "THAT WASN'T REAL COMMUNISM!". "Real" free trade doesn't exist and never will, just like "real" communism. And the evils of free trade are only added to by managed trade, some might even be mitigated by it. It's destructive, and it enables the globalist class to seize all the wealth and reduce everyone else to living in the dirt as slaves, it also erases barriers to global government and facilitates blackmailing nations into submitting to it.

If we all did as much of that as possible we would all be stronger and better off. It's not possible to do it absolutely and there are benefits to trade, but self reliance and in group preference is strength. There is a balance to be maintained between efficiency and stability, but erring on the side of stability is better than erring on the side of efficiency, and far better than forgetting about balance and maxing out efficiency as free trade attempts to do. Buying from your neighbors instead of family is perfectly good if there is a reasonable gain to be made. Buying from the next county over is still pretty good, but the amount of gain needs to be a little bigger. The same change in cost/benefit applies for the next state and the next region, at least they are supposed to share the same Constitution and general culture. Buying from friendly foreigners should have a rather high benefit in order to do so, neutrals even larger, and hostiles should only be traded with when no other option is possible and you simply can't do without whatever it is you are buying.

Garbage, user fees create feudalism of the rich, they are the flip side of fine based justice.

Regurgitating false dogma.

Whoever created the label was being deceptive, with the intent of enabling the kind of false history being presented. And the author of the article is being deceptive to claim that the group it refers to were for free trade when only the progressive insurgents were and the mainstream of the group was pro-tariff.

Doesn't change the fact that he's just casually snatching animals and butchering them in public. The ducks and geese that used to live at the park weren't cats and dogs either.

Show me where grassroots whites promote either. And please show me what colored saviors keep white culture and civilization from being composed entirely of both since you claim its our natural state barring some unspecified thing. Euro-American civilization is our natural state, we built it on our own and passed everyone else leaving them at least a century behind. Portland homeless camps are an example of the damage we have taken from invaders and infiltrators, same thing with the degenerate art, and neither is the mainstream of our culture or promoted at the grassroots.

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He removed massive amounts of regulations and placed SCOTUS Justices who are removing far more. Among many other things he did. He can't just get rid of departments Congress created and funds with all the RINOs opposing him and you know it.

I have repeatedly pointed to his record all along, as he made it and afterwards, you pretending to forget about it doesn't work.

Deceptive editing and gaslighting as usual.

Utter nonsense, Trump is a remover of communism, just not a perfect one. And pretending that anyone but Trump can win against the fraud intended to install Camela is blatant gaslighting, it always was, but it's doubly so now that RFK dropped out and joined forces with Trump.

Nonsense, it limits what he can do, just as it would limit Ron or anyone else, but Trump gets much of what he supports done anyway, and he will get more this time. It did us quite a bit of good last time, and will do far more this time.

Total inversion, Camela is the bringer of communism and you are doing your level best to ensure she wins by suppressing votes for Trump. Trump was the best POTUS in decades and a definite move in the right direction.

Trump does business in the environment we have, that has nothing to do with what he supports. He supports tariffs and reshoring industry, unlike free traders who support letting the CCP gain control of the world's industry through slave labor and government subsidies.

You're talking about letting today's FDR into office by opposing the guy who is a move in the right direction just because he isn't perfect. And you know exactly what you are doing.