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To: 1rudeboy

You can look up the tariff-rate on Chinese products right here. You can argue that the tariffs should be higher, but you shouldn’t use the term “free trade” (even in quotation marks), as it is generally understood to be the absence of tariffs altogether, or the “mirror” sort of tariffs that Duncan Hunter favors.

Frankly, adding x% of tariff will not make the Chinese economy collapse like a wet paper bag (what flavor of “rhetorician” is that, I wonder?), nor will it make the sourcing of products related to our national security more acceptable. Meaning that, adding x% to the price of an infected portable hard drive will not make it any less infected.

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Are you a lawyer? Why are you trying to dump 2,500 pages of lawyer talk on me? Why are you defending the destruction of the American prosperity and the American middle class?

Are you personally invested in Chinese slave labor? Are you profiting from it personally?


54 posted on 11/22/2007 8:05:32 AM PST by Hunterite
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To: Hunterite

Are you a politician? Why do you respond to statements of the obvious with personal attacks?


55 posted on 11/22/2007 8:06:49 AM PST by 1rudeboy
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To: Hunterite

Marx claimed he was in favor of free trade because it would antagonize the working classes into overthrowing the bourgeoise. How do you reconcile the above with a comment such as claiming free trade is destroying the middle class, or other such garbage?


57 posted on 11/22/2007 8:13:01 AM PST by 1rudeboy
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