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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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Your love life will be happy and harmonious.
(Score: 2) by c0lo on Wednesday July 04 2018, @03:21AM (4 children)
No, mate, who do you think I am?
It just happened I was just that lucky**: I did pick at random and my first pick was the relevant one.
(large grin)
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** Not only I was lucky in this particular instance but, in general, I'm resistant to suggestions imposing restrictions that don't make sense.
Be if only to make the life harder to those who want to define a particular frame of reference (I think the right-wing usians call frame a "narrative", but I might be wrong).
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(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Wednesday July 04 2018, @03:53AM (3 children)
That restriction absolutely makes sense though. It's a way to keep from having to look at every totalitarian regime around now and throughout history. I dunno about you but I have better things to do than spend years studying for an Internet argument. In any case, the point was that most totalitarian regimes aren't isolationist today and haven't even historically been.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 2) by c0lo on Wednesday July 04 2018, @04:00AM (2 children)
Did I say that?
I thought that I said "totalitarianism and isolationism regimes can happen, in which case the two traits go quite well hand in hand".
At least, that's what I wanted to say.
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(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Wednesday July 04 2018, @04:29AM (1 child)
Ahh, I gotcha now. Like porn and chicken. Not related but complimentary nonetheless.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 2) by c0lo on Wednesday July 04 2018, @04:44AM
A bit more than just complementary, they sorta enhance each other: isolationism makes easier to define an "enemy", totalitarianism make easier to "fight the enemy following the glorious leader" and offers legitimacy to the leader and the "righteous fight" enhances the isolationism.
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