He made the comments a day after Trump said he plans to renegotiate the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) between the U.S., Canada and Mexico.
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I’m always so amazed when I see somebody else talking about my viewpoints. That’s because Hillary had very little to do with these deals and the Republican Party a great deal.
In fact, as our friend Richard Manning of Americans for Limited Government recently noted in a column for The Hill, Trump’s early, aggressive position on trade is one of the reasons he vaulted to the top of the “Republican” heap. The answer is yes. Trade-related jobs pay between 13 and 18 percent more than non trade-related jobs, he said.
He told the OH crowd: “We have to fight so viciously and violently because we’re dealing with violent people”. He explains that he is part of what he calls the “new silent majority”-a group of people who might vote for Trump because of one overarching reason: He’s not Hillary Clinton”.
“This TPP sets the gold standard in trade agreements to open free, transparent, fair trade”.
Trump has broken from Republican orthodoxy and embraced a protectionist trade stance that more closely mirrors liberals such as Vermont Sen.
But on Tuesday it took issue with Trump’s vocal opposition to trade deals, calling his proposals “dangerous” ideas that would push the United States into another recession.
Why not “get rid of all the “heejabies” they wear at TSA?” the woman, who gave her name as Cathie Chevalier, asked – apparently referring to hijabs worn by some Muslim women.
But shouldn’t the United States be taking another long, hard look at a trade deal like NAFTA 20 years after its ratification?
“Even under best-case scenario, Trump’s tariffs would strip us of at least 3.5 million jobs”, the national chamber Tweeted during Trump’s Pennsylvania speech. I don’t want companies leaving because we don’t know what we’re doing.
Retired U.S. Ambassador to Mexico Antonio Garza said, in 2015 alone, Texas exported more than $250 billion of goods with nearly $100 billion of that money being earned from Mexico. “Almost half of our entire manufacturing trade deficit in goods with the world is the result of trade with China”.
He also said following the deadly Brussels terror attacks in March that if he were commander-in-chief, “waterboarding would be fine”, adding, “If they could expand the laws, I would do a lot more than waterboarding”.
Trump’s economic prescriptions make little sense-experts agree that tariffs would cost US consumers thousands of dollars a year in higher prices and could spark a global recession.
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“There is one thing that Bernie Sanders and I are in complete accord with and that’s trade”, Trump said. I want to take a deal that’s faulty – where we’re losing hundreds and hundreds of billions of dollars a year – and make it good. “All right? It’s bad”, said Mr Trump. “They lie cheat and steal and they don’t tell the truth, and I believe he does”.
