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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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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 03 2018, @02:26PM (6 children)
We would never anex Mexico. That would make them de facto US citizens, and Trump wants nothing more than to deport anyone and everyone who might be, be related to, or even know, a person with less-than lily white complexion.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 03 2018, @02:55PM (1 child)
TDS is strong in this one.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 03 2018, @05:09PM
We want to build a wall to keep them out, and then annex them? That makes as much sense as banning Muslims who don't have oil, but saying the ones who do have oil are fine people.
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Tuesday July 03 2018, @03:15PM (2 children)
Personally, I would. It would take a giant shit on the US economy but it would remove the massive income disparity pressure from our southern border, which would leave us better off in the long term. It would also lower the value of the dollar which would make domestic production much more viable.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 2) by bob_super on Tuesday July 03 2018, @05:42PM (1 child)
The Mexico-Guatemala border is only 541 miles, and none of it requires Eminent-Domain of US citizens.
There would be a lot easier to build The Wall, and make Mexico pay for it.
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Wednesday July 04 2018, @02:54AM
Yup, plus we'd get some damned nice beaches, lots of tequila, and many a senorita. You know what, I convinced myself. Screw the downsides.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 03 2018, @05:24PM
> We would never anex Mexico.
It's not like it ever happened before [wikipedia.org], eh?