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In response to Trump tariff threat, Merkel now backs tariff reduction on US vehicle exports
American Thinker ^ | 07/06/2018 | Thomas Lifson

Posted on 07/06/2018 7:57:56 AM PDT by SeekAndFind

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1 posted on 07/06/2018 7:57:56 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
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We should just set our tariffs equal to theirs, assuming no other trade barriers against our products. Or set ours equal to the approximate cost of any non-monetary barriers. If their barriers completely block our products, then a hundred percent tariff on their goods.


2 posted on 07/06/2018 8:00:30 AM PDT by marron
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To: SeekAndFind

Never trust A Merkel , she’s up to something


3 posted on 07/06/2018 8:01:22 AM PDT by butlerweave
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If the result is American factories producing those products, we shouldn’t be in any big hurry to lower the tariffs. After all, whats good for the goose is good for the gander.


4 posted on 07/06/2018 8:01:47 AM PDT by marron
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To: SeekAndFind

More “blinks” the calculated risk or the art of the deal


5 posted on 07/06/2018 8:01:50 AM PDT by no-to-illegals (..There is no difference between liberals/rinos/moslems/illegals/lamestream media ...)
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Yep, and put in regulations to lower tariffs automatically if they do so. It’s not rocket science. We should have been doing this decades ago.


6 posted on 07/06/2018 8:03:50 AM PDT by StolarStorm
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To: marron

Ditto the truth is free trade is not free. Is time free trade meant free


7 posted on 07/06/2018 8:04:20 AM PDT by no-to-illegals (..There is no difference between liberals/rinos/moslems/illegals/lamestream media ...)
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To: SeekAndFind

In the days before the income tax, we supported ourselves with tariffs.

We have the capability to be almost completely self-sufficient. We couldn’t easily put tariffs on everything except what we can’t mine here.


8 posted on 07/06/2018 8:06:24 AM PDT by marron
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This began with German industry going to German auto industry and getting THEM to say, they, German auto makers, thing EU tarriffs on autos should come down from their 25% to the U.S. 10% tarriff on autos.

Merkel did not draw this out of her feeble mind. It was delivered to her by German industry. THEY don’t want a trade war with Trump and THEY can admit EU tarriffs are too high.


9 posted on 07/06/2018 8:06:27 AM PDT by Wuli
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She doesn't want a bunch of unemployed German autoworkers on her hands.
10 posted on 07/06/2018 8:07:16 AM PDT by GonzoII ("If the new crime be, to believe in God, let us all be criminals" -Sheen)
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Sorry...

In the days before the income tax, we supported ourselves with tariffs.

We have the capability to be almost completely self-sufficient. We could easily put tariffs on everything except what we can’t mine here.

11 posted on 07/06/2018 8:07:36 AM PDT by marron
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RE: We could easily put tariffs on everything except what we can’t mine here.

Sure, as long as we go back to where we were before — eliminating the income tax.


12 posted on 07/06/2018 8:09:52 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
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Merkel is barely hanging on to power right now - she cannot afford a single mis-step and while Trump will negotiate, he is not backing off.

Trump is supremely confident about leveling the playing field with good reason. They need us far more than we need them. I am expecting some serious fireworks at the NATO summit and while it is mostly tied to what others pay for their own defense we can fully expect that trade will be part of the equation.

Trump also has Russia’s number. His comments yesterday about Europe needing NATO to protect against Russia even as they fund the Russian military by purchasing oil had to have sent huge shockwaves throughout Europe and Putin’s crowd. Cut that off and Russia would implode - they are basically a nation state gas station funding an obsolete military.


13 posted on 07/06/2018 8:09:57 AM PDT by volunbeer (Find the truth and accept it - anything else is delusional)
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I’m not against the income tax per se, but I am against the loss of privacy implicit in the way the income tax is collected in the US.


14 posted on 07/06/2018 8:12:22 AM PDT by marron
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Yep. Plus it is very easy to cut a bilateral deal. It doesn't make the Globalists happy because they love multilateral deals where U.S. soverignity is compromised and left to the diktats of some world body.

But the Globalists have always theorized that we need to be taken down a few notches anyway.

15 posted on 07/06/2018 8:13:26 AM PDT by Vigilanteman (ObaMao: Fake America, Fake Messiah, Fake Black man. How many fakes can you fit into one Zer0?)
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MSNBC bimbos and bimbetts are sooooooo excited tariffs might hurt the United States they can hardly contain themselves.

I haven't seen them this happy since they thought Hillary would win. Eyes flashing, speech fast and excited... their only disappointment is the stock market's up.

What disgusting jackasses.

Bill Maher 'elites' wanting citizens to suffer so they get their place back on top back. I hate these people.

16 posted on 07/06/2018 8:14:38 AM PDT by GOPJ ( BEST REASON TO STOP immigration: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U-s1_nfs7f4)
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She doesn't want a bunch of unemployed German autoworkers on her hands.

And a lot of them originally came from Turkey.

17 posted on 07/06/2018 8:19:56 AM PDT by spokeshave2 (WWG1WGA.....Where we go one we go all....WWG1WGA.)
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To: SeekAndFind

The media hasn’t reported this, it’s a huge Trump tariff win. They ae too busy, like CBS this morning, finding a chees company that might temporarily lose money. Corrupt media.


18 posted on 07/06/2018 8:21:47 AM PDT by 1Old Pro
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It’s almost as if Trump knows how to negotiate for things he wants.


19 posted on 07/06/2018 8:30:20 AM PDT by JamesP81 (Traitors are more dangerous than enemies. Vote and act accordingly.)
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> “We should have been doing this decades ago”

That’s exactly what the President said!


20 posted on 07/06/2018 8:32:17 AM PDT by Hostage (Article V)
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