Post by unlawflcombatnt on Dec 12, 2016 23:20:57 GMT -6
from the Fiscal Times
Trump Continues to Aggravate Free-Traitor Conservatives
www.thefiscaltimes.com/2016/12/12/Big-Free-Trader-Trump-Aggravates-Free-Trade-Conservatives
Dec 12, 2016
By Rob Garver
"President-elect Donald Trump over the weekend continued to exasperate free-trade conservatives, declaring in an interview with Fox News that allowing businesses to locate their production facilities where they want isn’t free trade, but rather, “dumb trade.”
The comments came in a discussion with Fox News Sunday host Chris Wallace when Trump was asked if his policy of personally intervening when individual businesses decide to relocate production to other countries is consistent with Republican priorities.
Trump last week pressured executives at the parent company of Carrier Corp., which makes appliances including air conditioners and furnaces, not to go forward with a plan to move one of the company’s Indiana-based plants to Mexico. He won a partial concession, saving hundreds of jobs, at least temporarily.
Wallace began by pointing out that Trump himself runs a company, and asking how he would have reacted if President Barack Obama had called him up and said, “Donald, this is how I want you to do business.”
Trump: I would have been honored.
Wallace: Honored?
Trump: I don’t have to do it myself. We have great people. We have top, top smart people. But it’s so easy to do, and we’re going to have to impose a major tax on companies that leave, build their products and think they’re going to sell it right through our border like we’re a bunch of jerks.
Wallace: But what about the free market, sir?
Trump: That’s not free market when they go out and they move and they sell back into our country.
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Wallace: But that’s the free market. They made a decision--
Trump: No. That’s the dumb market. That’s the dumb market. I’m a big free trader, but it has to be fair. So what’s happened is we have lost, over a period of years -- short years -- 70,000 factories in this country. Chris, 70,000. I always tell people I think it’s a typo...we’re being stripped of our jobs.
Trump went on to say that his preference is to entice businesses to stay in the U.S. by reducing taxes and slashing regulations. However, he said, faced with companies that insist on moving overseas, “the way you stop it is you impose a tax.”
The President-elect has suggested that an appropriate levy would be 35% on goods that American companies produce overseas and try to sell back into the U.S. market. Trump’s trade position, for traditional free-trade conservatives, is at best frustrating. At worst, it’s maddening."
Trump Continues to Aggravate Free-Traitor Conservatives
www.thefiscaltimes.com/2016/12/12/Big-Free-Trader-Trump-Aggravates-Free-Trade-Conservatives
Dec 12, 2016
By Rob Garver
"President-elect Donald Trump over the weekend continued to exasperate free-trade conservatives, declaring in an interview with Fox News that allowing businesses to locate their production facilities where they want isn’t free trade, but rather, “dumb trade.”
The comments came in a discussion with Fox News Sunday host Chris Wallace when Trump was asked if his policy of personally intervening when individual businesses decide to relocate production to other countries is consistent with Republican priorities.
Trump last week pressured executives at the parent company of Carrier Corp., which makes appliances including air conditioners and furnaces, not to go forward with a plan to move one of the company’s Indiana-based plants to Mexico. He won a partial concession, saving hundreds of jobs, at least temporarily.
Wallace began by pointing out that Trump himself runs a company, and asking how he would have reacted if President Barack Obama had called him up and said, “Donald, this is how I want you to do business.”
Trump: I would have been honored.
Wallace: Honored?
Trump: I don’t have to do it myself. We have great people. We have top, top smart people. But it’s so easy to do, and we’re going to have to impose a major tax on companies that leave, build their products and think they’re going to sell it right through our border like we’re a bunch of jerks.
Wallace: But what about the free market, sir?
Trump: That’s not free market when they go out and they move and they sell back into our country.
Related: Economic Growth Alone Won’t Make America Great Again
Wallace: But that’s the free market. They made a decision--
Trump: No. That’s the dumb market. That’s the dumb market. I’m a big free trader, but it has to be fair. So what’s happened is we have lost, over a period of years -- short years -- 70,000 factories in this country. Chris, 70,000. I always tell people I think it’s a typo...we’re being stripped of our jobs.
Trump went on to say that his preference is to entice businesses to stay in the U.S. by reducing taxes and slashing regulations. However, he said, faced with companies that insist on moving overseas, “the way you stop it is you impose a tax.”
The President-elect has suggested that an appropriate levy would be 35% on goods that American companies produce overseas and try to sell back into the U.S. market. Trump’s trade position, for traditional free-trade conservatives, is at best frustrating. At worst, it’s maddening."