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Fusionmunster
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« on: January 26, 2017, 04:05:20 PM »

The president cant just set tariffs. Good luck getting it through congress.
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« Reply #1 on: January 26, 2017, 04:34:20 PM »

So, In Trumps defense(Oh god), Spicer was referring to a border adjustment tax that congressional republicans have already gotten behind. It's not actually a 20% import tax.
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« Reply #2 on: January 26, 2017, 05:24:16 PM »

I'm open to seeing how this border adjustment thing works. It's smarter than a straight tariff and the way our corp tax structure works now does legitimately encourage outsourcing.

This flap, though, is case in point why Trump's... "stylistic" choices are self defeating. He's endorsing a pretty uncontroversial move (border adjustment) but has to do it in the most petulant, vindictive and imprecise way. This is a terrible governing idea and policy communicating idea.

For a man whose entire career has revolved around selling himself, he's done a terrible job this past week. Most of the bad press could have been avoided if Trump and his team would learn to shut their mouths and show a slight bit of caution.
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