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I agree with President Trump that we should have an America First trade policy.
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President Trump
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How does allowing China to constantly rig trade in its favor advance the core conservative goal of making markets more efficient?
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Allowing
Efficient
Advance
Favor
Rig
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Every Republican president starting with Lincoln - and for almost 100 years thereafter - generally supported tariffs, while Democrats tended to promote free trade.
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Free Trade
Democrats
Lincoln
Promote
Thereafter
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Modern free-traders... embrace their ideal with a passion that makes Robespierre seem prudent. They embrace unbridled free trade, even as it helps China become a superpower.
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Free Trade
Prudent
Ideal
Unbridled
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Years of passivity and drift among U.S. policymakers have allowed the U.S. - China trade deficit to grow to the point where is widely recognized as a major threat to our economy.
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Deficit
Passivity
Drift
Policymakers
Recognized
Trade Deficit
Widely
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The recent blind faith some Republicans have shown toward free trade actually represents more of an aberration than a hallmark of true American conservatism. It's an anomaly that may well demand re-examination.
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Aberration
Blind
Blind Faith
Conservatism
Demand
Free Trade
Hallmark
Anomaly
Republicans
Recent
Shown
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While never the darling of pure free traders, measures to combat dumping, subsidies, and injurious import surges have always been deemed essential by open economies like the United States to maintain support for trade.
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Combat
Darling
Pure
Subsidies
Deemed
Dumping
Import
Maintain
Measures
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It is hard for me to understand why we tolerate so many barriers to agriculture trade when America is the No. 1 producer of agriculture products. I think opening up markets - more markets for agricultural sales is a very high priority for us.
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Barriers
Opening
Tolerate
Agricultural
High Priority
Producer
Sales
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Markets do not run better when manufacturing shifts to China largely because of the actions of its government. Nor do they become more efficient when Chinese companies are given special privileges in global markets, while American companies must struggle to compete with unfairly traded goods.
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Chinese
Efficient
Goods
Manufacturing
Actions
American Companies
Compete
Largely
Privileges
Shifts
Traded
Unfairly
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Unlike national legal systems, there are precious few avenues to address judicial activism at the WTO. You pretty much have to gain consensus to change the agreements, or simply withdraw from the system. The first is nearly impossible, and the second would be - in the view of many - cataclysmic.
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Legal
Activism
Avenues
Consensus
Impossible
Judicial
Address
Agreements
Cataclysmic
Simply
Gain
Unlike
National
Precious
Second
View
System
Withdraw
Wto
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Conservative statesmen from Alexander Hamilton to Ronald Reagan sometimes supported protectionism, and at other times, they leaned toward lowering barriers. But they always understood that trade policy was merely a tool for building a strong and independent country with a prosperous middle class.
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Barriers
Middle Class
Prosperous
Statesmen
Alexander
Lowering
Merely
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