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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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'FART' Bill Indicates Trump's Intention to Dump WTO
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Wow! Look!! A stray meatball!! Let's interview it!
(Score: 0, Redundant) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 03 2018, @10:59AM (5 children)
The bill is USFARTA. You can argue to pronounce it as US-FART-A, but claiming it's FART is simply more Trump bashing. Sure, he's a bad president, but the constant media bullshitting makes all the non-trump supporters look like whining, immature kids throwing a temper tantrum. There are plenty of things to complain about, so stop making things up in an attempt to make the people you dislike look bad. It just makes you look worse and hurts whatever you're trying to say. Having Trump as president makes it clear the news isn't news, it's entertainment to go after whomever they don't like and entertainment to prop up anyone they do like. There aren't even attempts at non-bias reporting anymore.
(Score: 3, Funny) by c0lo on Tuesday July 03 2018, @12:00PM
Boo-bloody-hoo... Leave Britney alooone... [youtu.be]... Sorry, that was the first thing that popped into my mind while reading the above.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 03 2018, @01:38PM
US-FART-A is the Canadian pronunciation?
(Score: 3, Insightful) by The Mighty Buzzard on Tuesday July 03 2018, @03:16PM
It's a fart joke. It was going to be made no matter who proposed the bill. Untwist your drawers.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 3, Funny) by DeathMonkey on Tuesday July 03 2018, @04:02PM
The bill is USFARTA. You can argue to pronounce it as US-FART-A, but claiming it's FART is simply more Trump bashing.
Yes, it's a secret anti-Trump plot to use our Democrat (solar-powered) time machine do go back in time and secretly change the name of the USAPARTIOTA to the USA PATRIOT Act.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 03 2018, @07:26PM
I wanted to hop on the mocking train but everyone before me did such a great job!
I'd just like to add that there are plenty of attempts at non-bias reporting, just almost never from the big networks.