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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: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Wednesday July 04 2018, @02:34AM (1 child)
You're ruining a perfectly serviceable joke by taking it seriously.
Are you kidding? That my favorite activities are fishing and napping is widely known. In the past eighteen years or so I've turned down far more work than I've done. Laziness isn't just a trait with me, it's my life's ambition.
Okay, okay. I know you meant intellectual laziness. I don't really put any serious thought into postmodernists because I view them as absurd but mostly harmless as long as they don't go trying to proselytize it out to the general population. So I don't have much to say about them unless someone drops me an easy setup for a joke.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 2) by suburbanitemediocrity on Wednesday July 04 2018, @09:01PM
Except they are proselytizing it out to the general population.