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Last edited by Voluntarist; 07-28-2018 at 01:43 PM.
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If we did that, things like fresh fruits and vegetables would only be available part of the year. And be a lot more expensive. A lot of our seafood is imported. The US makes a lot of money exporting food. Money wise, we export far more than we import. Imports give us much more variety and low prices though.
First this isn't a business letter I don't care about the correct "There or Their" and I know the difference, auto-correct puts in what it does
As to the other part if the Canadian dollar is at par they won't be buying those hothouse peppers because then it's not worth it, when the dollar is at 75 cents it's like getting a 25% discount. Transversely when the dollar is at par Canadians buys tons of Americans foods like cheese and wine because it's a good deal for them, they just have to make sure they don't bring too much back or the Canadian border guards get them. Imports go way up and the importers and exporters under NAFTA do very well.
The dollar is going to bounce around, at about 80 cents is where it starts being worth it, and at 70 cents it's almost always a better deal. And if there is an over supply of a perishable commodity such as a hothouse red peeper then it's even a better deal. Let the free markets handle this within a reasonable geographic area among allies, with no tariffs.
But geopolitical foes should not be supplying our food at any discount, it's just not smart, again put high tariffs on them to discourage it from happening.
Last edited by ProBlue33; 03-12-2018 at 11:15 PM.
Simply because you disagree on one issue does not mean you reject the whole philosophy.
I want more freedom for more people.
Freedom is not a priority issue with most people, they frankly could care less.
Jobs, income, keeping a roof over their heads and food on the table takes a much higher priority.
When they lose that, they will embrace the most anti freedom platforms you can imagine, facism, communism and so on.
The difference is Ron Paul isn't an authoritarian. Even if Ron Paul was for protectionist tarrifs and he was president he wouldn't think its the presidents authority to do it and just do whatever he wants.
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I'm not sure when but Congress passed a law giving the President broad authority on trade, it can be argued that they shouldn't have delegated the power or you can argue as they did that Congress is incapable of negotiating with foreign countries because it is the worlds largest committee with too many special interests fighting.
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Give a man an inch and right away he thinks he's a ruler
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You cannot have liberty without morality and morality without faith
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No, they said president can apply tarrifs in the name of national defense. We can easily produce enough steel domestically for the Pentagon's needs. Not to mention access to friendly neighbors' exports. It is just an excuse to coopt tax raising authority that he does not have.
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Standeth God within the shadow, keeping watch above his own.
Never attempt to teach a pig to sing; it wastes your time and annoys the pig.
Robert Heinlein
Give a man an inch and right away he thinks he's a ruler
Groucho Marx
I love mankind…it’s people I can’t stand.
Linus, from the Peanuts comic
You cannot have liberty without morality and morality without faith
Alexis de Torqueville
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" U.S. military requirements for steel and aluminum each only represent about three percent of U.S. production. Therefore, DoD does not believe that the findings in the reports impact the ability of DoD programs to acquire the steel·or aluminum necessary to meet national defense requirements.”
Truth forever on the scaffold, Wrong forever on the throne,--
Yet that scaffold sways the future, and, behind the dim unknown,
Standeth God within the shadow, keeping watch above his own.
Never attempt to teach a pig to sing; it wastes your time and annoys the pig.
Robert Heinlein
Give a man an inch and right away he thinks he's a ruler
Groucho Marx
I love mankind…it’s people I can’t stand.
Linus, from the Peanuts comic
You cannot have liberty without morality and morality without faith
Alexis de Torqueville
Those who fail to learn from the past are condemned to repeat it.
Those who learn from the past are condemned to watch everybody else repeat it
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I highly doubt that.
But even if it were so, so what? If we don't need to produce steel, we should't waste resources producing it. And if we ever need to again, we can start again. If you or somebody else doesn't like that plan and want to waste your own money producing steel when it's not economically profitable, then go right ahead without forcing other people to bear any of the economic burder for doing that if they don't want to.
At the end of the day, whether we the people want to produce steel or not is our choice, not the president's and not Congress's.
Never attempt to teach a pig to sing; it wastes your time and annoys the pig.
Robert Heinlein
Give a man an inch and right away he thinks he's a ruler
Groucho Marx
I love mankind…it’s people I can’t stand.
Linus, from the Peanuts comic
You cannot have liberty without morality and morality without faith
Alexis de Torqueville
Those who fail to learn from the past are condemned to repeat it.
Those who learn from the past are condemned to watch everybody else repeat it
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