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no no no it's just leverage so that we can achieve True Free Trade™!

it's totally not because he's a tariff-loving guy

Protectionism is a long term drain, but I'm in favor of using it if other countries are going to as well. If you don't match their measures, you lose. You just end up with marginally cheaper junk and no jobs.

The point GEOTUS is making about trucks and the chicken tax, which is the same point he's made about tariffs from the beginning, is that they aren't the end of the world.

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Protectionism is a long term drain, but I'm in favor of using it if other countries are going to as well

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there is a third option

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the same point he's made about tariffs from the beginning, is that they aren't the end of the world

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his "point" is that he thinks they are good

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Protectionism is a long term drain, but I'm in favor of using it if other countries are going to as well. If you don't match their measures, you lose. You just end up with marginally cheaper junk and no jobs.

The point GEOTUS is making about trucks and the chicken tax, which is the same point he's made about tariffs from the beginning, is that they aren't the end of the world.

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Are you Bernie Sanders? No joke, that's exactly what he'd say.

That only exists in your mind.

Can you link where he said these words:
"Hey Congress, end the subsidies! GM is ungrateful.

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Are you Bernie Sanders? No joke, that's exactly what he'd say.

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Sure. I'm Bernie Sanders. You got me.

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His economic advisors are exploring an import tax, like the ones other countries hammer us with.

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what you mean to say is that trump is arguing explicitly for a 25% tax on imported trucks, which we hammer ourselves with already, to apply to other goods too

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How is that a contradiction to favoring a roll back in federal subsidies for electrics?

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Arguing for a tax on items that compete with something you want to protect works very much like a subsidy

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Each manufacturer has to many options. Eliminating different types cars should help the company and in the long run help the consumer. Why produce the Yukon, Tahoe, and Escalade? Yukon or Tahoe needs to be eliminated. GM is competing against itself. It is hurting their profit and the price a customer pays for a new vehicle

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SO eliminate what the people are buying? You smart.

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what you mean to say is that trump is arguing explicitly for a 25% tax on imported trucks, which we hammer ourselves with already, to apply to other goods too

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A 25% chicken tax that killed the US small pick up market.

Small pickups are still sold worldwide,but good luck buying one here because of this tax.