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Former president floats 10 percent tax on all foreign imports and calls for ‘ring around the collar’ of U.S. economy

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[–] ImplyingImplications@lemmy.ca 35 points 2 years ago (1 children)

“When companies come in and they dump their products in the United States, they should pay, automatically, let’s say a 10 percent tax … I do like the 10 percent for everybody.”

I like how he decides on major economic policy shifts the same way I decide on what to eat for supper.

[–] khalic@beehaw.org 7 points 2 years ago

He's just lying because somehow, making people pay import taxes was a popular move among his base. What a fucked up timeline

[–] MJBrune@beehaw.org 22 points 2 years ago (2 children)

It's looking like he's going to be barred from even running. So any promises he makes is just going to be like 2008-2016 Trump. Him claiming that things would be "bigly better".

[–] mookulator@mander.xyz 24 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

I’d like to believe that that’s true, but I’ve been disappointed by our political system too many times to believe it .

[–] interolivary@beehaw.org 16 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

It’s looking like he’s going to be barred from even running

What, really? I'm Finnish and I haven't been following US news for a while, so I'm all out of the loop. How likely is it that he'll be barred?

Edit: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/aug/20/trump-disqualified-constitution-section-3-14th-amendment, relevant snippet:

But one provision in the constitution, section 3 of the 14th amendment, makes things more complicated. It says that no person who has taken an oath “as an officer of the United States” can hold office if they “have engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the same, or given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof”.

That language disqualifies Trump from running for office because of his efforts to overturn the 2020 election, two prominent conservative scholars, William Baude of the University of Chicago and Michael Stokes Paulsen of the University of St Thomas, concluded in a much-discussed article to be published the University of Pennsylvania Law Review.

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Disqualification under the 14th amendment does not require a criminal conviction, Noah Bookbinder, the executive director of the watchdog group Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (Crew), said in an interview earlier this month. The push to disqualify Trump is likely to play out at the state level in parallel to both the federal and state cases criminally charging Trump and allies in connection with their efforts to overturn the election. The left-leaning group Free Speech for People has already sent letters to election officials in 10 states urging them to declare Trump ineligible to run for office under the 14th amendment. Crew is also preparing to file litigation in several states to disqualify Trump from the ballot, Bookbinder said.

[–] MJBrune@beehaw.org 21 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Your edit nailed it exactly. So note that even one key state barring him would make it almost entirely impossible for him to win the presidency. It's not like California is going to turn Red any time soon. So a place like Georgia or Florida not putting him on the ballot would tank him.

Honestly, though, the bigger issue isn't Trump, It's Ron DeSantis. He's likely going to be the GOP candidate next election and he's essentially like Trump if Trump had 2 brain cells instead of 1. He's young, super right-wing, a nutjob, and likely to get a lot of people to vote for him.

[–] interolivary@beehaw.org 12 points 2 years ago

Oh yeah DeSantis is the one I'm worried about

[–] mookulator@mander.xyz 18 points 2 years ago

If only horrible economic policy was the worst thing to worry about

[–] storksforlegs@beehaw.org 12 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

"A ring around the collar of the US economy that, with my policies, will tighten. And then I'll kick the stool out from under the economy, and then tada!! Problem solved."