Forum Post: We Need Tariffs Now!!!!!
Posted 13 years ago on Nov. 17, 2011, 8:28 p.m. EST by mac123
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from Canton Township, MI
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In 1994 congress got us involve in GATT. The Generall Agreement on Tariff and Trade. We did not get to vote on it and it has ruined the middle class by making us compete with low wage countries. We were warned about the consequences but Congress didn't care. Please educate yourselves about this so we can turn this around. Everything this man said was going to happen has happened. Please watch this video: : http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=5064665078176641728
tariffs were the main thing that started the civil war
Reactionary nonsense. Tariffs don't generally portend good times.
I agree slap a tariff on chinese junk and the American made product would be cheaper, or do a head tax on every worker an American company hires in china or india, and you could use the money for unemployment.
Don't you appreciate the standard of living your cheap foreign goods give you? Free trade and the global abolition of tariffs and subsidies would significantly reduce poverty in the third world overnight.
Oh really and increase poverty in the US, thats the idea that got us into this goddamn mess.
I Totally Agree !!!!
If you're comfortable with unfair trade practices that line your own American pockets and keep others in starvation, then go for it buddy.
Listen until their in no one starving in the USA then maybe ill give a crap about the third world, I see to many people stave in this country I want to help them first then maybe help other countries.
I also agree.