Posted on 03/03/2018 2:42:54 PM PST by mdittmar
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump kept up pressure on trading partners on Saturday, threatening European automakers with a tax on imports if the European Union retaliates against his plan to slap tariffs on aluminum and steel.
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I can feel the smile of every auto union member in the US..
Not they had a sweetheart deal to long fair trade or no trade.
Poland says Germany owes them $850,000,000,000. I think the USA is owed at least ten times that amount. How about Germany just pay off our entire national debt and pick up our deficit spending for a century or so, then we can give our Donald the nod to ink the deal.
Putin and his whatever should also pay up. Afterall, he tried to get Hillary the Psychopath elected as our President. What? There are persons that say it’s the opposite? Ok then, we’ll just settle the deal on Russia taking all the Muslims that BHO took into our USA over the last 8 years. I’m sure the Russians will treat them hospitably.
All This theater will only result in further isolation of the US
That’s a shame.
The chamber of commerce called. They have a new set of talking points they would like you to post.
American voters might not appreciate government interference with what they want to buy.
Guess I better hurry up and buy a new car. Have been putting it off because I still really like my Jag.
A play for swing states imho, he’s trying to lock in the “Reagan Democrats”’
Pretty smart actually. We may not like it in principle but it won’t cost him much base support.
Trump is fooling himself if he thinks anyone can come out ahead by a world-wide trade war.
If FR is any reflection - they are happy to be led down the path of Juche
you must be a socialist or gov’t employee if you hate free enterprise so much
However, China has been stealing our lunch and peeing in our lunch bucket for a long time. So I have no problem whatsoever that Trump is taking action against China.
Those who are critiquing Trump for the China tariffs can take a long hike as far as I am concerned. These whiners and crooked critiques have no solution to what China has been doing. These unfair tactics have been going on for a very long time, and these so called champions of free trade just sit back and dismiss these tactics.
We have had a long string of crooked politicians who have allowed these unfair practices by foreign countries, and their crooked benefactors who profit from them. They sit around DOING NOTHING, and then wring their hands and whine about how it is impossible to take action.
Finally, someone wants to set up an equal playing field and all of a sudden these crooks are full a sage criticism.
Yes, although I agree with President Trump about many things (e.g., staying strong on the Second Amendment- and I belief that he will do so-, an air-tight border, sending criminal aliens back to from whence they came, upgrading our Military, staying strong re north korea and iran, reducing oppressive regs on business, tax reform, and many more), trade wars are not very winnable, and the down side might be steeper than the upside.
Better to take a more measured approach.
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How does a tariff work on BMWs built in South Carolina?
You must be a moron if you think what has been going on is free enterprise.
“All This theater will only result in further isolation of the US”
Ludicrous.
The US is the largest market in the world. They’ll take this sh!t and like it.
I’m not even opposed to throwing NATO into the mix.
Well, from comments going around today there are a lot of morons on free republic. It is rather astonishing that anyone thinks that the merchantilist policies of China, Japan and France, in particular, but the globalist bureaucracy calling itself the European Union, are anything like free-trade.
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