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Re:Chinese Workers Who Assemble Designer Bags in Italy by rsynnott on Tuesday April 17, 2018 @08:16AM (#16857578)
The new right in the US is also more ambivalent on the free market, though; note Trump's attempts at trade wars.
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Re:Chinese Workers Who Assemble Designer Bags in Italy by maxerickson on Tuesday April 17, 2018 @08:42AM (#16857722)
Free trade has always been the position of the elites on the US right (and left) more than the masses.
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Re:Chinese Workers Who Assemble Designer Bags in Italy by emodendroket on Tuesday April 17, 2018 @08:50AM (#16857770)
This is more true than false, but tariffs were popular with US business leaders really until a little while after the post-war period.
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Re:Chinese Workers Who Assemble Designer Bags in Italy by AdrianB1 on Tuesday April 17, 2018 @02:25PM (#16860966)
I either got it completely wrong or the tariffs were one of the major income sources in US before income tax was implemented.
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Re:Chinese Workers Who Assemble Designer Bags in Italy by emodendroket on Tuesday April 17, 2018 @02:57PM (#16861221)
That makes sense, but US business owners also preferred being insulated from foreign competition.
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