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To: impimp
Note that I am not economic nationalist but I wanted to present an argument to support free trade for the growing group of “America First” people on the right.

The free traders are all claiming we will economically fail because of tariffs. Trump is saying China leverages our free trade practice by cheating. That's all anyone is saying. I hear nothing but the same chest beating by the libertarians. I wish Trump would do a better job at explaining the means of cheating. It is clear that China has taken many manufacturing jobs from America. So have the Japanese and Koreans among others. Maybe it was American capitalists who saw foreign cheap labor who screwed America. It's a complex picture. I'm betting that Trump has a good understanding of the corruption associated with American Free Trade. He is a pragmatist, That is something libertarians can't grasp.

5 posted on 06/10/2019 9:51:45 PM PDT by LoneRangerMassachusetts (Behind enemy lines)
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To: LoneRangerMassachusetts

Greed is not complex at all.


30 posted on 06/11/2019 4:26:18 AM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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