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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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Remark of Dr. Baldwin's concerning upstarts: We don't care to eat toadstools
that think they are truffles.
-- Mark Twain, "Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar"
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 03 2018, @08:48PM (1 child)
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
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.