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[Politics/Religion] derp critical mass
« on: November 14, 2010, 08:51:21 AM »

http://www.nytimes.com/20...on/13lighthizer.html?_r=1
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Re: [Politics/Religion] derp critical mass
« Reply #1 on: November 14, 2010, 09:15:07 AM »

"And while the Tea Party supports market outcomes, its members appear to believe that the rest of the world is stacking the free-trade deck against us. They have a point: most policymakers agree that the Chinese currency is grossly and deliberately undervalued, that China fails to respect intellectual property rights and that it uses government subsidies to protect its own manufacturing base. Meanwhile, the movement says, the United States does virtually nothing in response."

Isn't that what they want? To have government do nothing and just get out of the way? Retarded movement members are retarded.
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Re: [Politics/Religion] derp critical mass
« Reply #2 on: November 14, 2010, 09:15:20 AM »

Stupid article about stupid people has a false premise:

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Strangely, for a movement named after an 18th-century protest against import levies,


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The Tea Act, passed by Parliament on May 10, 1773, would launch the final spark to the revolutionary movement in Boston. The act was not intended to raise revenue in the American colonies, and in fact imposed no new taxes. It was designed to prop up the East India Company which was floundering financially and burdened with eighteen million pounds of unsold tea. This tea was to be shipped directly to the colonies, and sold at a bargain price. The Townshend Duties were still in place, however, and the radical leaders in America found reason to believe that this act was a maneuver to buy popular support for the taxes already in force. The direct sale of tea, via British agents, would also have undercut the business of local merchants.

Essentially, it was the removal of a duty that would flood the market with cheap tea and drive small businesses (aka tea smugglers) out of business.

FWIW, there is NO way the modern GOP is going to allow tariffs of any kind. It's one of the fundamental shifts of postmodern American politics. Tariffs used to be something BOTH sides supported as recently as 1976.
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