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posted by martyb on Tuesday July 03 2018, @06:17AM   Printer-friendly
from the He-Who-Smelt-It dept.

The Trump administration has crafted a draft bill — ordered by the president — that would declare America's abandonment of World Trade Organization rules, according to Axios. The bill essentially provides President Donald Trump — who has argued for a better position for the U.S. in big trade pacts — a license to raise U.S. tariffs at will, without congressional consent and largely outside of the international rules governed by the WTO. The bill, titled the "United States Fair and Reciprocal Tariff Act," would give Trump unilateral power to ignore the two most basic principles of the WTO and negotiate one-on-one with any country.


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  • (Score: 3, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 03 2018, @09:59AM (8 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 03 2018, @09:59AM (#701820)

    America answerable to no one is the best possible outcome you dummy.

    Isn't that one of the required steps before the fall of an empire? Anyone who thinks "America is so special that it can never happen here" doesn't realize that achieving that mindset is another required step in the fall of an empire.

    America is turning into Cartman.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 03 2018, @10:44AM (7 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 03 2018, @10:44AM (#701837)

    To be fair, that mindset is almost two hundred years old. [wikipedia.org]

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 03 2018, @03:40PM (6 children)

      by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 03 2018, @03:40PM (#701958)

      To be really fair, that mindset is around 13 billion years old.

      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 03 2018, @03:52PM (5 children)

        by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 03 2018, @03:52PM (#701967)

        I'm pretty sure that 13 billion years ago there was no mind which could have had a mindset, be it this or another one.

        • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 03 2018, @05:07PM (4 children)

          by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 03 2018, @05:07PM (#702025)

          I'm pretty sure that 13 billion years ago there was no mind which could have had a mindset, be it this or another one.

          There you go again, limiting your thinking to Earth.

          • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 03 2018, @08:48PM (1 child)

            by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 03 2018, @08:48PM (#702161)

            Perhaps you could explain your teleological views to us. It could be quite entertaining.

            • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 03 2018, @11:54PM

              by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 03 2018, @11:54PM (#702251)

              Well, you see, billions of years before the Earth was the 3rd rock from its Sun there were other intelligent life forms. In fact, they were so intelligent that they knew tariffs were a dumbass idea, and that thinking your empire can never fall was one of the required steps before your empire fell.

          • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 03 2018, @11:53PM

            by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 03 2018, @11:53PM (#702250)

            No, he is further limiting his thinking to humans only, not understanding (or not wanting to) that everything we do is perfectly natural.

          • (Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday July 04 2018, @11:30PM

            by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday July 04 2018, @11:30PM (#702769)

            I was gong to retort to GP, "anthropocentric" but really, terracentric (heliocentric?) is much more encompassing.

            Still, "mind" isn't not solely a human purview, even on earth. The very stupidest humans, who are granted human rights, are often less intelligent, by quantitative measures, than smart instances of other apes, cephalopods, cetaceans, who are given no rights despite having "superior" minds on all metrics than the very stupidest humans.