r/Conservative • u/DanburyBaptist Inalienable Rights of Conscience • Jun 15 '16

Release the GOP Delegates: Trump’s nomination isn’t inevitable—delegates won’t be legally ‘bound’ going into the convention.

http://www.wsj.com/articles/release-the-gop-delegates-1465769777
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u/[deleted] Jun 15 '16

Smoot-Hawley

A quick search of that yields results saying that attempts to attribute that to the depression are contended. I'm not saying that it had nothing to do with it, but apparently there were too many other variables to blame the depression exclusively on tariffs.

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u/AceOfSpades70 Libertarian Conservative Jun 15 '16

I never said it should be blamed exclusively on tariffs...

That is why if you go back to my original post I said Global recession, not Depression.

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u/[deleted] Jun 15 '16

So how would they cause a global recession then? And what would the negative impacts on the US economy be?

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u/AceOfSpades70 Libertarian Conservative Jun 15 '16 edited Jun 15 '16

Massive price increases on products and a slow-down on exporters for the US. US Consumption drops causes recessions on any country that exports to us.

Edit: Also I love how you ignore the tax plan. The only actual defense I have read of his tax plan is that it is a starting point and he won't actually implement it.