Quote:Also my point remains and I want to make sure you see it, trumps belief is the state can and will fix free market problems like price differences between domestic and foreign products or goods.

My point is thats false. That would be using tariffs universally to achieve price equilibrium, that's not what he's advocating. He's advocating tariffs as a putative measure against countries that violate trade agreements or use unfair trade practices.

Quote:My belief is the state can not ever under any circumstances fix free market problems and we still have a free market. I believe so strongly in a free market that anyone regardless of their policital party who holds the view that the state can and will impose it's will on a free market is not someone I can support.

That's just not accurate. China Mexico and other countries do impose massive tariffs and duties on our goods. That's a natural imbalance created by sovereign nations not market forces. Those walls have to be brought down. We can't trade into countries that impose protectionist policies against our producers.

Quote:Taxes will not correct the deficit doesn't matter if you tax income, imports, exports , capital gains, consumption, production, energy none of it will fix a fundamental problem of a state that is over expanding and bloated beyond control. Trump thinks taxing imports will change the deficit situation. But at the end of the day it's just a dressed up tax on you and me, [BAD WORD REMOVED] that.

He's talking about the trade deficit. That's the imbalance of exports v. Imports not the fiscal deficit of revenue v. Expenditures. For that he is proposing the penny plan and eliminating baseline budgeting. 1% non defense discretionary cuts annually. There's your small government solutions.

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