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In 1993, Democrats voted against NAFTA by 156-102 and against it in the Senate by a narrower 28-27. Now, Democrats are mourning the death of what they claim is the last vestige of NAFTA.
President Trump’s tariffs, they claim, are killing the ‘free trade’ that the Dems once opposed, before they supported it, and before they opposed it.
NAFTA cost Republicans the White House, but Bill Clinton’s embrace of it cost Democrats the South. Clinton had manipulated and misled working class Democrats into believing that he would either reject or fundamentally transform NAFTA and lost the white working class vote.
Sen. Chuck Schumer, then a mere member of Congress, had originally voted against NAFTA.
When President Trump proposed replacing NAFTA with the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement , Schumer praised the move but still like then Sen. Kamala Harris, voted against it because it didn’t do enough for global warming.
“We’re going to fight these tariffs tooth and nail,” Sen. Schumer now vows.
This is the same Schumer who has spent years berating Canada for “restrictive trade policies”
Rep. Rosa DeLauro built her reputation on fighting NAFTA. “I put my heart and soul into defeating this,” she recalled six years ago. “We were on the floor every morning, every night.”
“President Trump’s trade war on Canada and Mexico, which are part of the USMCA trade agreement, driven by his 25% tariff on nearly all imports from those countries, will drive up prices on all Americans,” Rep. DeLauro now argues. “I condemn President Trump launching a trade war that absolutely guarantees price increases on key products as well as retaliatory tariffs that will affect exporters across many states.”
Democrats supported and implemented tariffs from the very beginning. From Jefferson’s Embargo Act to Madison’s Tariff of 1816, formed in response to British economic warfare closely resembling that of modern day China, not only the Founding Fathers and Framers of the Constitution, but key figures in the Democratic Republican Party knew the value of tariffs.
American independence required economic leverage. The idea that the world was one big free market with no regard to borders or national interests was fanciful nonsense that they would for the most part have rejected out of hand. The debate was concerned on which parts of the country would benefit from tariffs and which parts of the country would be harmed by them.
When the Democrats ‘internationalized’ under Woodrow Wilson and FDR, they fully embraced free trade. The dismantling of tariffs in the 1930s became a signature part of FDR’s global agenda, seizing control of tariffs (perhaps unconstitutionally) from Congress and using it as an instrument of both domestic and foreign policy is one of the unresolved crises of the New Deal.
Democrats are vocally complaining about President Trump using a power they gave FDR.
In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, Democrats viewed free trade as an anti-capitalist program for fighting ‘trusts’ and ‘bosses’ by using ‘free trade’ to weaken American companies. Tariffs were supposed to be an instrument of the rich and removing them was alleged to help the poor. The package of taking down tariffs and putting up taxes was economic class warfare.
At least it was until major corporations embraced it and used it to ship production overseas.
In reality, dismantling tariffs centralized government power which is why the Revenue Act of 1894 under President Grover Cleveland, one of the country’s worst presidents, also gave us the first non-war income tax. Dismantling tariffs required imposing taxes which then had to be struck down by the Supreme Court in Pollock v. Farmers’ Loan & Trust Company. It would take an alliance of Democrats and Progressives to impose taxes through the Sixteenth Amendment.
Why was there a sudden need for an income tax amendment in 1913? Later that year, Democrats passed the Tariff Act of 1913, slashing tariffs and adding a corporate tax. Among Democrats and some Republicans opposition to tariffs was wedded to a program of tax hikes and class warfare. Cheap foreign goods were tied to higher taxes on the ‘rich’.
But despite the class warfare rhetoric, too many people in Democrat constituencies were hurt by dismantling tariffs. Democrats supported those tariffs that they believed aided the ‘working class’ as they defined it and opposed those that they believed benefited American corporations.
Democrat tariffs like LBJ’s retaliatory ‘Chicken Tax’ appealed to key political demographics. Bill Clinton’s NAFTA doubletalk showed how popular tariffs still were with the Democrat base. And a generation of Democrats ran against NAFTA and denounced it as a tool of economic destruction. By the late 90s, leftists rioted in the streets of major cities against free trade.
The 1999 World Trade Organization riots in Seattle brought together unions and Antifa for the worst non-racial rioting until the first Trump administration. The ‘Battle in Seattle’ was part of the larger movement of leftist economic riots and occupations culminating in Occupy Wall Street.
Democrat supporters of NAFTA and free trade learned to be careful about their views.
Now the Democrats want to act like they are the greatest supporters of free trade and the greatest opponents of tariffs. In reality, their policy on tariffs and trade have been linked to some form of class warfare for at least the last 130 years. Their opposition to President Trump’s efforts to roll back tariffs worldwide rings hollow especially since Trump’s Liberation Day program is a more aggressive version of FDR’s Reciprocal Tariff Act that emphasizes the stick over the carrot. Rather than attempting to lower foreign tariffs through a mass series of reciprocal deals, Trump is trying to lower them with mass retaliatory tariffs. That may or may not work, but Dems should stop pretending that they’re either pragmatically or ideologically opposed to them.
Tariffs have been a subject of debate since America’s Founding. Key figures like Jefferson have held different views of them at different times. But the Democrat pretense that tariffs are a crazy policy that they always opposed is as dishonest as their previous insistence that they always opposed racism and presidential third terms when they were the prime champions of all three.
Democrats aren’t born-again free-traders, they’re born again traitors. Their objective is economic sabotage above all else. Their best bet for taking the House and then the White House is to tank the economy and they are guilty of everything they accused Trump of doing.
Leftists are not enemies of tariffs: they’re enemies of America.
Absolutely right Daniel. The good news here is that, while many of us have seen Democrat oligarchs and politicians for what they really are for quite some time, now the masks are off for ALL to see. No pretence. No slight of hand.
They hate America. “Fundamentally transforming” weren’t words chosen accidentally by Obama.
If I didn’t feel just a little sorry for the brainless sheep that follow their talking points and marching orders (If you didn’t see any of the vapor locks that occurred this weekend when protesters were asked why they were protesting, please look them up) I would’ve suggested deporting them as well.
Everything from trans rights, abortion, open borders etc…Democrats represent EVERYTHING wrong with America.
🇺🇸 MAGA 🇺🇸
Democrats have become leftists which means that they believe a thriving America is the enemy of everything they value.
Democrats exist to be contrarians … it’s the only reason they draw mortal breath …
If Trump announced tomorrow he was imposing the massive carbon taxes they favor, the Dems would argue that he was anti-tree for depriving them of their food … They claim to fear the ‘religious right’ establishing a theocracy, while simultaneously moving heaven and earth to entrench an Islamic theocracy called ‘Palestine’ next door to Israel … If Trump said the sky was blue they would have ‘scientists’ testify in a Congressional hearing that there is a growing body of evidence that the sky is, in fact, pink …
Nancy Pelosi once stated that ‘a Supreme Court ruling is like God speaking’ — until Roe v Wade was overturned, to which she now responded SCOTUS was guilty of ‘shredding the constitution’ …
I for one am exhausted by how straight-faced they are when being two-faced, which they’re able to accomplish only with cover from the media …
They are the nuttiest political party on earth, never mind the free world, a ball and chain dragging own the United States of America, and a cancer on the body politic …
Great nations don’t fall by an invading enemy as much a they rot from within … Sadly, the Dems’ “sell by date” was decades ago …
Sorry Daniel but I have friends who are liberals. I play in a band with three liberals. I do not think they oppose a thriving America. Instead, I think they just disagree on either what is necessary to thrive or the different amounts of GDP that go unequally to people. I specifically did not use the phrase “how they are distributed.” As Thomas Sowell has pointed out, income is earned not simply “distributed.”
I think the corporate tax rate should be zero because “corporations don’t pay taxes; people do.” I don’t think people who disagree with me–almost everyone–are bad people. Instead, I think they just don’t understand the concept of opportunity costs. Too often they do not understand profits and losses are signals.
Sorry, Richard — that was true when it was JFK vs. Nixon, but not now … As Nixon said in the first televised debate, “Senator Kennedy and I have the same goals, we simply differ on the means to achieve those goals …” That was 1960 …
Today, it’s reparations for slavery, imprisoning political opponents, green scams, propping up terror regimes and child mutilation that motivate the donkey (jackass) party, just to name a few of their horrendous ‘policy’ objectives …
The NY Times preposterous ‘1619 Project’ is one of ten thousand smoking gun examples that prove yet again, once and for all, that the Democrats are hell bent on demolishing the very idea of America, both root and branch and everything in between …
Kevin, thank you for being civil. Polls show many Democrats do not support reparations. I don’t know the % but even many Democrats do not support boys competing against girls.
In class today, I mocked two men competing in the finals for the championship in pool . (I think it was in England.) Why do we need separate categories for men and women in pool? Do men have an advantage in carrying heavy pool sticks?
I agree with you 100% about the 1619 project. Thanks again for being civil.
I would “love” to hear that band, spearheaded by your cheap Canadian gee-tar. What kind of music? Peter Paul and Mary? Elton John? Moody Blues?And some 80s New Wave sprinkled in for good measure? But I suppose you are too chickenshyte to tell.
You are working overtime to try and prove you are not a lib. You are SUCH a lib, pansy boy.
Why do we need a separate category for trans men competing against women in a pool or any other sport? Because they aren’t women. You obviously think they are. Maybe women don’t like men peering at their privates in the ladies locker room. Maybe you are a tranny and just haven’t made the jump to tranny speed yet. But you sure do look precious wearing that girly man soccer uniform. You sound like some fairy who just can’t cut it in the real world.
Is there an opportunity cost in supporting trannies over actual men? Go grade a term paper.
Tariffs are the forcible extraction of money from individuals who have done nothing wrong. They are immoral whether done by the government of the U.S. or other countries.
The common thread in all the problems described by this article is STATISM, a disease that infects both the (D) and the (R) parties. Statism is the political implementation of the doctrine of collectivism-altruism, with the state acting as an instrument of this ugly ethics.
The loss of manufacturing jobs in the U.S. was also caused by Statism. Minimum wage laws and numerous regulations were enacted by leftist-statists in pursuit of collectivist-altruistic goals such as “mandating a fair, living wage” or “saving the planet”. These made manufacturers flee the U.S. in large numbers.
A principled leader would make America great again by eliminating every law that infringes on individual rights. This would eliminate job-killing laws and regulations and make America attractive to manufacturers. If other countries impose immoral tariffs on their citizens, let them suffer the consequences of their actions. If pressure was needed to “help” them see the error of their ways, it would not be by penalizing other innocent Americans. Perhaps by eliminating our support for their defenses and certainly by eliminating any foreign aid (as Trump has rightfully done).
The enemies of America, indeed. That message needs to be hammered home.
Good coverage, thanks !!!
I get the impression reading history that tariffs used to be one of the main ways governments raised revenue.
You’re right. It was the main way our government raised revenue for a very long time. It pilfered even more money than from the booze tax that way. But then the D-Bags came up with the constitutionally illegal income tax and we’ve been bent over ever since.
I got out from behind that but not having a real income isn’t much of a trade off. Anything to deny my ex wife the sweat off my brow, though. I won’t even give her the sweat off my balls.
No problem. The rest of us will earn more to fund the government.
Yes, pay those taxes so I don’t have to, dumbass. Put in some overtime, ha haw! As if teachers ever do. I was a teacher for years and my fellows spent more time on vacations than working. You can grade some papers while my girlfriend rides the high one and we smoke a big fat joint and watch Netflix.
I hope President Trump denies your school federal funds. You can have a party with Hamas.
Not working more just so that your ex-wife doesn’t get the court-ordered payments. Great life-plan that! The conservatives I know think people should earn their keep but we got you covered.
No comment on my Tea Party speech on YouTube? C’mon, you have to have some shallow comment about my appearance or accent. Let me help you. Maybe say something about my breath again. That was intelligent.
What did you teach? It clearly wasn’t economics or logic.
I don’t support the federal government giving any colleges federal funds. I also don’t support government bailing out people whose life goal is to avoid making payments to their ex-wives.
Since you earn so little money, I guess renewal of the tax cuts doesn’t really matter to you. Do you face a marginal tax bracket of zero?
Someone who reads Frontpagemag supports Hamas? You just keep giving me so much easy stuff to work with. Thank you.
Yep, you got me! As a teacher I’ve got to spend tons of time with my children and my wife of 44+ years. No alimony for this guy. How about you?
You use the rolling papers while I’ll be a productive human being and grade papers. Today’s quiz was on Ch. 10: Behavioral Finance. Your bragging about your (meager) winnings is unsurprising. It’d covered in the book A Random Walk Down Wall Street. Hey wait! I thought you commented the stock market was rigged?
I’d write more but I just got a text from Charlie Kirk, asking for continued financial support. I’ve earned so much money–try it sometimes==I can easily do so.
Do you even have a pair of balls? It must be so shameful for you to go public with your inadequacy. If my dick were that small I’d commit suicide.
You’re such a little bitch.
Is she making you sweat for court-ordered payments?
“…not having a real income….”
Here’s an idea to help you. Work at a hog-processing plant for $22 an hour like the many hardworking immigrants do.
Why don’t you work at sucking my dick?
Indeed. Tariffs were seen as a good way to raise money and promote the national welfare at the same time.
Some may take issue with that, but the replacement for it was income taxes which are far worse.
Government needed far more money because it was spending so much more. If they would have just raised the tariff rates, they would have gotten mugged by the Laffer Curve.
The USA government has never spent (wasted) more money than it does now, dumbass. A trillion dollars for tranny mice experiments?
That probably gets you off, doesn’t it, freakshow?
Wait! It finally came to me what you must have taught “Name-calling for Junior High Students? Did I get it right?
It wasn’t history, but maybe since you’ve shared so much with us, you will tell us why October 12, 2021 is significant.
Okay, so you’re innumerate.! A trillion dollars? Really? I’ve posted actual #’s criticizing many government-funded research programs. I got them from the College Fix website. There were many funny ones but one was why chimpanzees throw feces.
Please keep feeding me good stuff to use in responses.
How many dicks have you sucked today? Did they taste yummy? 😛
Those would take issue with tariffs do not understand the basic concepts of barter & trade nor the meaning of a level playing field.
I’d also like to point out that it’s extremely rare to see an American care in Europe and Japan yet here in America, at least 2 out of every 6-8 cars on American roads is a Japanese or European car. Those who are against tariffs are obligated to explain why that is if their opposition to tariffs is based on logic and sound economic sense.
The democrats (aka, “dummiecrats”) and the EU trolls lurking in this forum aren’t going to like what I said above!!
Please explain why a surplus in the capital account is bad.
I am sure you meant “car” so let me address that. The Big 3, with their powerful unions, were making only big, gas-guzzlers, not fuel-efficient cars. When the price of gasoline went way up after OPEC successfully colluded to get oil prices up, people increasingly demanded fuel-efficient cars. The Japanese were already making them. Gasoline is so much higher in price in Japan because the Japanese government put a high tax on it to get its citizens to instead use the rail systems the government had built. Americans learned the small American-made cars produced were lousy. When I was a kid, “probably made in Japan” was something we said after something broke. Japan brought in Deming to teach them quality control. The quality did increase. Many American electronics stores selling American-made and Japanese-made products charged higher prices for the Japanese product, e.g. SONY. The salespeople would say “it is higher quality.”
I’ll look forward to you explaining why a capital account surplus is bad. I’m a lifelong learrner who will learning.
Are Teslas fuel efficient? They’re really good at catching lefty vandals.
Far worse — taxation DESPITE representation.
“Trump is trying to lower them with mass retaliatory tariffs. That may or may not work …” That may or may not work! This tentative questioning of the Dear Leader’s wisdom could see you expelled from the MAGA cult! How dare you!?! Comrade Napoleon is always right and you had better not forget that …
Derp. Foreign countries charging exorbitant tariffs is good but America striking back is bad?
Big Don is President and America hates everybody who opposes him. Get used to it, wimp meister.
I will continue to provide some of your previous comments. Enjoy!
“As if ordinary people benefit from the stock market, which is crooked as the year is long.
“I don’t pay dick in taxes but I want to see the nonsense end.”
Maybe if you were smarter you’d earn more money and pay more in taxes!
I got that comment about your ex-wife saved. Too late to take it down.
You seem more than a bit insane.
Typical pathetic comment. What exactly is the insanity?
Here’s another one of your brilliant gems:
” And only black chicks drink brandy, and none of the ones I know waste money on the French stuff. American brandy is yummy.”
Is that your ex-wife in the photo?
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Actually, that’s a lady in my avatar photo. And she cooks me food and blows in my ear while you’re begging some hatchet faced skank to let you lick her toe jam. Not that you’d know anything about a woman.
No one knows what the future holds. Trump as a lifelong businessman knows that better than anyone.
All of life is a gamble.
The question is what’s the cost of doing nothing and letting China continue to turn us into a zombie economy run by them?
That’s a good point. In a way we’re forced to use tariffs.
I’m pretty sure President Trump just stuck China with a 104% tariff. Trump isn’t going to lose this one, Xi Ping Pong is.
More pathetic name-calling. Do you have an altered name for Farida? I’d enjoy hearing it.
Do you have an altered name for my dick up your ass, you stalker weirdo?
Has U.S. GDP per-capita gone up or down since China’s GDP per-capita has gone up?
To think the size of the economic pie is fixed reeks of flawed liberalism.
What’s your point … ? To the millions who got laid off in the rust belt over the last 30 years, it’s way, way, waaaaayyy down …
For Apple and Facebook and Silicon Valley, it’s way up … I guess they’re the only ones who matter … ???
Excellent non sequitur.
It is incredibly easy to point to change that has negatively affected some people but net, has been good for humankind. A majority of people in the U,S, used to work on farms. Should we have prevented farms from getting larger?
To protect jobs, should we “do a New Jersey” and not allow people to pump their own gas?
Who developed the software that created the comment section we’re using? Maybe we should have prevented that technological advancement.
Maybe, to save newspapers and “mom-n=pop” stores, we should have stopped the internet from existing and made online buying illegal.
How many of those people who got laid off were in unions previously facing little competition? How many of the unions bargained for such high wages that it invited foreign competition that benefitted the American consumer?
I guess the only ones who matter are competition-protected union workers, e.g. public sector teachers’ union, and not consumers, students, or taxpayers.
A lifelong failed businessman – you dispatched that fact down the memory hole …
“One of the most important reasons for studying history is that virtually every stupid idea that is in vogue today has been tried before and proved disastrous before, time and again.” Thomas Sowell
For the sake of our country, I hope President Trump’s tariffs end up having the impact that is intended. Intentions are not results. I remain skeptical but will gladly admit having been wrong if that turns out to be the case.
Anyone who thinks that with zero tariffs and equal non-protective barriers that the U.S. will have trade deficits with no countries (a) does not understand the important concept of comparative advantage and (b) doesn’t understand the benefits of having a capital account surplus. President Trump wants foreigners to build factories in the U.S. That requires that those countries have a trade surplus with the U.S. Here’s a rhetorical question those who disagree should refute. If other countries do not have a trade surplus with the U.S., where will they get the dollars from to invest in the U.S.?
I live in a town with a large hog-processing plant. The average wage is probably close to $22 an hour. It is mostly Mexican immigrants and immigrants from other countries who work there. Non-immigrants would rather work for much less money doing more pleasant work. The same is true for another hog-processing plant about 30 miles away. I have the utmost respect for anyone who is willing to work hard to earn their keep. There are so many Americans who claim to want limited government yet don’t want government to cut Social Security and Medicare. Republicans were for less government before they were for it.
President Trump’s tariffs have already produced beneficial results. Deal with it.
It isn’t producing beneficial results for the many Americans who own stocks. Now, obviously you don’t. You’ve shared with readers that you don’t want to earn more because you don’t want your ex-wife to get any more money. (What did you write she was again?)
You’ve laughably asserted that you are going to post that I am a pedophile. (I’ve gotten two speeding tickets so maybe you can use that.” Tell us about child support payments.
Newsmax stocks. Kicking ass while the blue chip crap tanked. My stock is going up and up while yours chugs turds. Loser.
Of course all the stocks have stabilized because……….Trump.
I also hope, but don’t know if the impact will be positive.
The problem is that much of Chinese investment in our country is geared toward harvesting our raw resources or markets for higher end manufactured Chinese products.
The hog plant staffed by foreign workers is an all too typical example.
This is what we used to do to foreign countries. Now it’s being done to us.
As I wrote in a previous article, China sells us computers, we sell them soybeans.
Let them eat rocks.
The Alphabet, Amazon, Apple, Meta, Microsoft, Nvidia, and Tesla, are all U.S.-based companies. Our country is not worse off because of their high profits or what they sell, but instead better off. Here’s a photo of all of the people forced to buy what they sell–>
Didn’t I see you keying a Tesla?
Get a job.
the Chicoms are also harvesting our Intellectual Property. IP is something you can’t take back. For a better bottom line, our corporations gave away the farm.
Hell our government did too. Brother Bill Clinton moved our ICBM technology to from DOD to the Commerce department and then sold the technology to who ever. North Korea would still be firing rockets that wouldn’t out-distance a bottle rocket, if it weren’t for dumbass Bill.
And that hog-processing plant is owned by a Chinese conglomerate that contracts with many American farmers who raise pigs.
My apologies to any vegans traumatized by the allusion to hogs.
The Chinese are pigs.
“Very intelligent retort” said no one ever. This is so much fun for me. I started off my presentation on tariffs with one of your quotes. The audience found it very entertaining.
Please educate us. What did China do that explains its high per-capita GDP growth.
Here’s another one of your conspicuous attempts to avoid logic: : “And don’t expose yourself near any playgrounds, Chester.”
Thank you for sharing what your ex-wife is with us.
High per-capita GDP growth in China? 1.3 billion coolies working for slave wages? Emigrate there if you think it’s so wonderful.
Feel free to whack it to my ex wife, though. I wouldn’t touch her with your little dick. Weirdo.
Another lame response. It isn’t an opinion but simple demonstrable fact. Where did I state ‘it’s so wonderful.” You continue to make stuff up, such as that I am a pedophile. What isn’t public record is me not paying court-ordered support after a divorce.
Tell us again why you don’t want to earn any more money. That was some funny stuff. A society’s standard of living increases when the people become more productive. The Chinese government, although very authoritarian, has allowed more free markets and that explains the incredible per-capita growth. Their GDP per-capita is still only one-fourth of the per capita GDP in the U.S. What is your per-capita GDP. Mine, including benefits, is $90,000.
I just know this is going to be a funny response. Commence with the name-calling.
You keep writing about being a pedophile. Keep your little dick in your pants.
Again, emigrate to China if it’s such a wonderful place. I’m sure they could use some more rat turd collectors. It’s not as if you’re physically capable of being a rickshaw “driver.”
And nobody makes $90 grand a year by rubbing it to internet porn. “Teacher! Leave those kids alone!”
I imagine, like beef, the processor gets to pick winners and losers…putting the farmer in a bad position. Hell they could even import pork to process from China, I imagine. Destroying us from the inside.
Dems have always been open to tariffs and protectionism. Tariffs are not an aspect of free market and capitalism.
The fact that the dems support tariffs should be the first clue of how foolish they are!
The fact that Crazy Bernie and Pelosi have always supported tariffs should be Trumps first clue if he could actually use his brain!
In just three months, America is booming under Trump instead of dooming under Alzheimer Joe’s handlers.
Too bad for America haters like you.
Stock prices are way down. Investors are forward looking. People who understand that prices convey an incredible amount of information understand what message the lower stock prices convey. Now, you’ve shared with us–thanks for sharing–that you pay little in taxes and don’t want to earn more to keep your ex-wife from getting any more money. If you earned more and invested, you could live better.
You had better hope Trump doesn’t put a tax on logic-haters.
Actually, stocks surged today. Trump, little man. Deal with it.
HA HA HAW! Bitch.
Tariffs were part of our economic policy from the beginning. As I discuss in the article, Dems turned on tariffs once they saw dismantling them as a means of class warfare.
Mr Greenfield, that fact that dems are for tariffs should be all the more reason to be against them!
Trump bad!!!!!!!!!
Deep insight! Here’s another one of your brilliant comments.
“I bet your breath stinks.”
If it stinks it doesn’t stink enough for my wife to leave me. How many years were you married? Tell us about child support.
Tell me about jock strap support. It probably doesn’t take much to hold up your little peas. And I think I can smell your stank ass breath right thought the worldwide web. Not wide enough, stinky.💩
This is so entertaining. Like Trump and Rubio, you think the size of a person’s unit says something about them.
I’m too old to play any rigorous sports. I was inducted into the Central Islip High School Sports Hall of Fame at the same time as John Schmidt, who was the Jets center when QB Joe Namath won the Super Bowl in 1968. I’m guessing your most significant athletic achievement is avoiding alimony payments.
Thank you for the additional comments. Which I will add to the long list of other such gems.
I’m not sorry to hear you have a small unit. I think it’s hilarious.
No wonder chicks shun you.
See you, spanky.
Schumer and his party are waging war against the Trump MAGA revolution because it interferes with their failed “revolution” that was meant to take down America. Tariffs are just a talking point for them.
Yes, like the “threat to democracy” and rule by “the oligarchs, Trump and Musk.” Schmucky is just a slithering reptile anyway. His own political party wants to dump him.
Here’s more from today’s Wall Street Journal. The essay is titled “The Republicans Who Forgot Their Economics.”
“Last year Mr. Scott remarked that ‘“an across-the-board 10% [tariff would] increase the cost of everything,’ which he believed, ‘in the current inflationary environment, would not be helpful.”
That’s Republican Tim Scott of South Carolina. I guess he must hate President Trump and the United States…
(C’mon Jeffrey, entertain us with more comments about the WSJ. Maybe you’ll tell us how much people pay daily to watch Fox News. Maybe not.)
Newsmax will soon overtake Fox News. Last week it went public at ten dollars a share. Today it’s forty five bucks. For a day last week it was about two hundred and fifty. I bought $400 bucks worth at only ten bucks a share.
Do the math, dillrod. A government schooled moron like you will probably need a calculator, though. I cleaned up while dipshits like you who probably bought blue chip crap are taking it up the ass.
Dumbass.
Wow, you invested $400? I spend more than that on books each year. I thought your previous post was that you “pay ____ in taxes” and that you didn’t want to earn more because you didn’t want your ex-wife –what did you call her again–to get anymore of your money. Please correct what I just wrote.
I made a killing off a measly $400. How about you, retard?
Enjoy spanking it in the dark. Assuming you can get it up, which I doubt. LOSER. Ha ha HAW! Retard! 💩
Why didn’t you put global warming in Quotes
You are great but wrong in assessment of Grover cLevelad
Potential revenue from tariffs is a few trillion, roughly the same as income tax revenue.