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In reply to the discussion: For our isolationistic nationalism loving DU'ers who want the world to be a bigger place [View all]Spider Jerusalem
(21,786 posts)33. No, it isn't?
You are aware I hope of EU free trade rules? Imports from elsewhere in the EU are free of import duties which are levied on non-EU imports. Which means that for example Renaults and Citroens and Fiats and Alfa-Romeos sold in Germany don't have additional import duty, since the EU is a free-trade area. Imports of vehicles into the US are levied a 2.5% duty, which is lower than the 10% rate Germany imposes on non-EU imports, but the US is hardly non-protectionist here.
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RB TexLa
Apr 2012
OP
No, most people want to connect with the bigger market. It's just a few that look down on people
RB TexLa
Apr 2012
#3
None of them which goes to show healthy economies don't have to focus on limiting imports.
pampango
Apr 2012
#86
Germany's VAT refunds and tariffs on American cars are but a small sample of their protectionism.
Zalatix
Apr 2012
#93
It would be interesting to know the percentages of raw goods/resources exported and imported
suffragette
Apr 2012
#59
Are you saying that the American Plan to protect American jobs and markets thru tariffs that worked
Vincardog
Apr 2012
#6
Every other country was bombed back to the stone age in WWII. Get your facts straight.
Vincardog
Apr 2012
#80
There is nothing wrong with that. We have more money so of course we are going to consume more
RB TexLa
Apr 2012
#34
There is nothing wrong with losing 500 billion dollars a year? Are you insane?
Elwood P Dowd
Apr 2012
#37
I understand you want to make sure the US the 1% of the world keeps all that money.
RB TexLa
Apr 2012
#42
And I understand you want to give away our jobs AND our money to anyone not American
Elwood P Dowd
Apr 2012
#45
Do you understand the basic relationship between the trade deficit and the national debt?
Zalatix
Apr 2012
#46
YOU have not explained it. You've merely linked an article you've misunderstood
mathematic
Apr 2012
#88
You left out the fact that Germany slaps big tariffs on US products... such as cars.
Zalatix
Apr 2012
#55
They also hit many of our products with a 20-30% VAT. If a German firm manufacturers the same or
Elwood P Dowd
Apr 2012
#57
Oh that's another important fact. But here's the most hilarious part about this argument
Zalatix
Apr 2012
#58
Foreign markets don't hate America. They buy plenty of our stuff. The US is the world's #2 exporter.
pampango
Apr 2012
#36
I was responding to your post that "foreign markets hate America". That's wrong. I'm glad you've
pampango
Apr 2012
#100
OK. We're the world's second largest exporter but "they" don't want our goods.
pampango
Apr 2012
#107
We have the largest trade deficit in the history of humanity. Reality, pampango. nt
Romulox
Apr 2012
#116
How does the Simon Anholt Nation Branding index explain our $46 billion monthly trade deficit?
Zalatix
Apr 2012
#75
Great. How does that explain the fact that America imports FAR more than it exports?
Zalatix
Apr 2012
#81
What it does explain is the 'American Brand' isn't the problem, with ratings like that (nt)
MichaelMcGuire
Apr 2012
#109
If the brand wasn't the problem then our exports would be much higher relative to our imports.
Zalatix
Apr 2012
#110
RB needs to take his fake free trade talking points to a US Chamber Of Commerce forum run by the
Elwood P Dowd
Apr 2012
#13
When you START with namecalling, A. no one listens to you, and B. you lose by default.
saras
Apr 2012
#15
Progressive countries trade (and import) more than us, not less. The reason they are progressive
pampango
Apr 2012
#19
I like buying locally to keep money in my community. Wtf does it have to do with intrntl borders?
uppityperson
Apr 2012
#28
Bullshit. You can't go get a job to produce goods for China. The world is NOT YOUR COMMUNITY.
Zalatix
Apr 2012
#104
And you don't even see the irony of misusing "community" to limit who you are bound to.
RB TexLa
Apr 2012
#120
It is true. This thread is all about YOU telling American workers to go suck it.
Zalatix
Apr 2012
#127
If international borders are so artificial and unimportant, why can't people freely cross
Bluenorthwest
Apr 2012
#30
Europe has largely accomplished this, but things are quite progressive over there.
pampango
Apr 2012
#39
I consider the lack of borders within the EU to represent a "borderless society". If you want to
pampango
Apr 2012
#101
I give credit to the EU for transforming a continent with 27 "borders" on the continent to 1 -
pampango
Apr 2012
#108
You know that pampango is out of intellectually ammunition when she begins race baiting.
Romulox
Apr 2012
#114
It's fun to poke fingers in her tissue paper arguments...not a lot of thought seems to go into them.
Romulox
Apr 2012
#124
No, it has not. The EU has, to a certain extent. That is more analogous to our going
Bluenorthwest
Apr 2012
#74
Plus, the UK in particular has done a lot of replacing of British low-wage workers
Lydia Leftcoast
Apr 2012
#91
At what point does your Utopianism interface with modern America as it exists...in the Real World?
Romulox
Apr 2012
#85
"What went wrong" is that we used to have most of the policies that Europe still has.
pampango
Apr 2012
#95
And despite this massive imbalance, you devote 100% of your advocacy to expanding corporate power?
Romulox
Apr 2012
#115
What went wrong is the US never instituted publicly funded elections and is destroying itself.
Selatius
Apr 2012
#123
The freep or News ran an article the other day about West Michigan towns devastated by the loss
Romulox
Apr 2012
#117
At what point does RB Tex LA realize this thread hasn't gone the way s/he expected?
Zalatix
Apr 2012
#94
You make a valid point I demand walls and moats with sharks and lasers on their friggin' heads.
jp11
Apr 2012
#43
For our intellectually lazy, ideology loving DUers who want to argue with strawmen only.
JackRiddler
Apr 2012
#84
I have here in my hand, a list of 80 isolationistic nationalism loving DU'ers who want the world to
FSogol
Apr 2012
#92
Yep, and playing the "xenophobia" card from the bottom of the deck. As usual.
HughBeaumont
Apr 2012
#125