The U.S. is going to substantialy reduce taxes and regulations on businesses, but any business that leaves our country for another country,— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) December 4, 2016
fires its employees, builds a new factory or plant in the other country, and then thinks it will sell its product back into the U.S. ......— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) December 4, 2016
without retribution or consequence, is WRONG! There will be a tax on our soon to be strong border of 35% for these companies ......— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) December 4, 2016
wanting to sell their product, cars, A.C. units etc., back across the border. This tax will make leaving financially difficult, but.....— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) December 4, 2016
these companies are able to move between all 50 states, with no tax or tariff being charged. Please be forewarned prior to making a very ...— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) December 4, 2016
expensive mistake! THE UNITED STATES IS OPEN FOR BUSINESS— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) December 4, 2016
Even the mad interventionist Steve Rattner understands some of the problems with protectionism:
Ironically these tariffs would raise prices & hurt Trump's base of blue collar workers the most pic.twitter.com/rOyKbzngYR— Steven Rattner (@SteveRattner) December 4, 2016
It's time to roll out Murray Rothbard once again.
-RW
Wenzel-Weld democrats now retweeting Paul Krugman for their economic arguments - thats ALL you need to know folks!
ReplyDeleteShould have quit after the first tweet.
ReplyDeleteSeriously though, it sucks that so many on the right who rightly denounced Obama for lecturing private businesses will support this mercantilist nonsense.
What if Trump is persuading most everyone to accept crony capitalist deals of special tax breaks and incentives (wealth taken from taxpayers)? He's putting forth two options to set the scope of the debate. Now it's pick one.
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