Republicans have a double-standard when it comes to Trumps threats of retribution'

[inanna]

December 6 at 7:00 AM

In the thick of his re-election campaign in 2012, President Obama devoted six paragraphs in his State of the Union address to his plans to reverse a flow of factory jobs to foreign countries.

He called to end tax breaks for companies that outsource jobs, to cut taxes for domestic manufacturers and to levy a minimum tax on multinational corporations. He implored businesses to "ask yourselves what you can do to bring jobs back to your country," and he told Congress "It is time to stop rewarding businesses that ship jobs overseas, and start rewarding companies that create jobs right here in America."

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Congress — including the Republican-held House of Representatives — never sent Obama any of those reforms. In the official Republican response to the speech, the then-governor of Indiana, Mitch Daniels, chided him for not focusing on a different economic issue, the growing national debt. Later that year, the GOP nominee for president, Mitt Romney, declared in a debate with Obama that "the idea that you get a break for shipping jobs overseas is simply not the case."

Obama repeatedly proposed measures to punish offshoring companies and reward domestic producers. None of them were as far-reaching or punitive as President-elect Donald Trump's threat to slap a 35 percent tariff on goods imported from "any business that leaves our country for another country."

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https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2016/12/06/on-trumps-threats-of-retribution-republicans-have-a-double-standard/

[Mc Mike]

1. Good article, thanks. rec, Nt

[SamKnause]

2. The majority of Republican politicians have a double-standard on every issue.

That is a fact.

The majority of Republican politicians are liars.

That is a fact.

[exboyfil]

3. One thing Obama didn't do was put himself

out in front with business leaders like Immelt and specifically ask him what needs to happen to bring jobs back into the country. I thought he was going to do this when he formed his Council on Jobs and Competitiveness. He did nothing with it, and it disbanded after the 2012 election (the optics are horrible on this).