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brentspeak

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34. I looked up "Lawrence O'Donnel and Tariffs"

Reply to lancer78 (Reply #33)

Sat Apr 5, 2014, 11:17 AM

Apr 2014

And there's nothing. Was there a point to your post?

The only people who don't like tariffs are a) rich pricks who enjoy getting undeserved dollars courtesy of cheap labor; b) pompous economists who've been indoctrinated with antiquated free-trade hocus-pocus; c) politicians on the take from rich pricks.

The USA did extremely well for two hundred years employing strategic tariffs. Now we have a crumbling middle class thanks to exported industry.

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