Republicons are bloody weird. Faux News and a Rethug now want tariffs on imports.

[TheBigotBasher]

In order to be a Conservative in America you would have to walk only using your right leg to provide monentum, listen to Rush Limpballs and Faux News so that you know what to think for the day and have no sense of morality about being a hypocrite at all.

Exxel Outdoors Inc., which employs nearly 70 workers in its Alabama factory and makes about 2 million sleeping bags per year, has been pressing the Obama administration to lift an exemption that lets Bangladesh import sleeping bags into the country without paying a 9 percent tariff.
"You can't leave an American manufacturer at a competitive disadvantage with a foreign worker," Harry Kazazian, chief executive of the company, told FoxNews.com.

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Sen. Jeff Sessions, R-Ala., has tried to slap a tariff on Bangladesh sleeping bags but he has been unable to sway his fellow lawmakers to change the U.S. Generalized System of Preferences, or GSP, which determines which products third-world countries can import duty free.
So Sessions has placed a hold on the annual GSP bill, making it all but certain that the program will lapse at the end of this month.
"I have supported free trade, probably more than my colleagues," he said on the Senate floor Friday. "But I have worked for two years to try to obtain a simple justice to close a loophole in the tariff laws that has impacted and will close a sleeping bag textile manufacturer in my state."

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2010/12/19/facing-closure-uss-largest-sleeping-bag-maker-seeks-relief-free-trade-loophole

The comments from Rethugs are just downright confusing. They are so effin stupid I wonder how they wipe they arse?

[vaberella]

1. Wait...doesn't that make it more expensive on us as consumers.

Because the business would have to pay more for the raised import that the producer is paying more for...resulting in more taxes for us. I mean there could also be an increase in profit though depending by how much they raise the taxes. Additionally it would be a win-win for American companies who are create their products overseas. It's just a lose-lose for us.

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My statement above was to your title question. I don't understand though...the articles posted. It doesn't seem very hypocritical from what I read.

[niceypoo]

4. It makes it cheaper to buy American

It creates jobs. Who cares if cheap Chinese junk costs more.

[old mark]

2. That would indeed increase the cost of those sleeping bags by 9%, which is

probably still much cheaper than the ones made in the US.


mark

[FreakinDJ]

3. I support "Fair Trade" not Walmart Welfare

Let me guess - Walmart is the sole purveyor of these sleeping bags

The tariff system we now employ in this country was erected as a "Welfare" system to Multinational Corporations. A 2% tariff on Chinese goods coming in, opposed to the 20-40% tariff on American goods entering China. Or 25,000 American cars entering South Korea duty free opposed to the 500,000 cars Korea exports to the United States.

The whole system needs to be overhauled, re-evaluated, and reworked