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How Trump Could Be Like Reagan
« on: August 01, 2018, 02:49:01 pm »
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/31/opinion/trump-reagan-trade-tariffs-china.html

By Stephen Moore, Arthur B. Laffer and Steve Forbes

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President Trump won a victory for freer trade last week when he and the president of the European Commission, Jean-Claude Juncker, agreed to find ways to lower tariffs and other barriers to each other’s exports. The outlines of the deal are still sketchy, but it calls for the Europeans to buy more American petroleum, soybeans and manufactured goods and for Mr. Trump to reduce his auto and steel tariffs.

We were particularly heartened that Mr. Trump and the Europeans now have a handshake agreement to aim for zero tariffs on both sides of the Atlantic.

This was Mr. Trump’s idea. The night before the agreement, he proposed in a tweet that “Both the U.S. and the E.U. drop all Tariffs, Barriers and Subsidies! That would finally be called Free Market and Fair Trade!” Amen.

This is a winning strategy that we’ve long endorsed with our friends at the White House because it is fully consistent with what Mr. Trump has often told us: his threat of tariffs is a negotiating tactic to get to lower trade barriers and a “level playing field.”
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Re: How Trump Could Be Like Reagan
« Reply #1 on: August 01, 2018, 02:51:07 pm »
I case you don't know who Art Laffer is....

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Re: How Trump Could Be Like Reagan
« Reply #2 on: August 01, 2018, 02:55:36 pm »
Art Laffer has been around awhile, since the Reagan administration, that I am aware of.
A smart guy.
I hope he is one that this administration is listening to.
At one time, he was a Trump adviser, but I don't know if he still is.
He should be, if he is not.
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Re: How Trump Could Be Like Reagan
« Reply #3 on: August 01, 2018, 02:56:16 pm »
Quote from: Frank Cannon on August 01, 2018, 02:51:07 pm
I case you don't know who Art Laffer is....



Two Continents restaurant still wants their napkin back.
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Re: How Trump Could Be Like Reagan
« Reply #4 on: August 01, 2018, 02:59:12 pm »
How Trump Could Be Like Reagan

He could stop being a congenital liar for starters.
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Re: How Trump Could Be Like Reagan
« Reply #5 on: August 01, 2018, 03:00:00 pm »
Quote from: skeeter on August 01, 2018, 02:56:16 pm
Two Continents restaurant still wants their napkin back.

LOL. It always bugged me too that these guys vandalized restaurant property and stole it and now it's in the National Archives.
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Re: How Trump Could Be Like Reagan
« Reply #6 on: August 01, 2018, 03:02:35 pm »
Quote from: GrouchoTex on August 01, 2018, 02:55:36 pm
Art Laffer has been around awhile, since the Reagan administration, that I am aware of.
A smart guy.
I hope he is one that this administration is listening to.
At one time, he was a Trump adviser, but I don't know if he still is.
He should be, if he is not.

Considering what Trump is doing is closer to Reaganomics than any other President since 1988, I would guess Donny is listening to Laffer, Moore, Kudlow and the rest of the Reaganites.
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Re: How Trump Could Be Like Reagan
« Reply #7 on: August 01, 2018, 03:07:47 pm »
Quote from: Frank Cannon on August 01, 2018, 03:02:35 pm
Considering what Trump is doing is closer to Reaganomics than any other President since 1988, I would guess Donny is listening to Laffer, Moore, Kudlow and the rest of the Reaganites.
I would agree.
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Re: How Trump Could Be Like Reagan
« Reply #8 on: August 01, 2018, 03:18:42 pm »
Quote from: GrouchoTex on August 01, 2018, 03:07:47 pm
I would agree.

Donald Trump......   RWR with out the honesty, integrity, and morality.   Got it.
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Re: How Trump Could Be Like Reagan
« Reply #9 on: August 01, 2018, 03:21:56 pm »
Quote from: catfish1957 on August 01, 2018, 03:18:42 pm
Donald Trump......   RWR with out the honesty, integrity, and morality.   Got it.

I work off of tangible economic results. You can work off of what the Church Ladies have to say. My way puts money in my pockets. Your way makes you feel guilty drinking a beer at lunch.
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Re: How Trump Could Be Like Reagan
« Reply #10 on: August 01, 2018, 03:22:34 pm »
Quote from: catfish1957 on August 01, 2018, 03:18:42 pm
Donald Trump......   RWR with out the honesty, integrity, and morality.   Got it.
I'm not trying to say he is the 2nd coming of RWR.
Only that as far as the economic advisers go, he is listening to some of the same ones that Reagan did.
I don't see any harm in that.
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Re: How Trump Could Be Like Reagan
« Reply #11 on: August 01, 2018, 03:39:07 pm »
Quote from: Frank Cannon on August 01, 2018, 03:21:56 pm
I work off of tangible economic results. You can work off of what the Church Ladies have to say. My way puts money in my pockets. Your way makes you feel guilty drinking a beer at lunch.

I didn't  say I want or need a Saint in there.  Just have him put this thumbs in casts and stop tweeting and making a fool of himself.
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Re: How Trump Could Be Like Reagan
« Reply #12 on: August 01, 2018, 03:43:16 pm »
Quote from: catfish1957 on August 01, 2018, 03:39:07 pm
I didn't  say I want or need a Saint in there.  Just have him put this thumbs in casts and stop tweeting and making a fool of himself.

I vehemently disagree with you there!  Trump is driving the media NUTS because they don't get to filter what he says! Keep it up Mr. President!  MORE!
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« Reply #13 on: August 01, 2018, 03:47:03 pm »
Quote from: Bigun on August 01, 2018, 03:43:16 pm
I vehemently disagree with you there!  Trump is driving the media NUTS because they don't get to filter what he says! Keep it up Mr. President!  MORE!

I think we are pretty good friends here, but (IMO) these Twitter shit storms will eventually fly back into his face.
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« Reply #14 on: August 01, 2018, 03:50:32 pm »
Quote from: catfish1957 on August 01, 2018, 03:47:03 pm
I think we are pretty good friends here, but (IMO) these Twitter shit storms will eventually fly back into his face.

Maybe so!  there is no doubt that the media will do their damnedest to make it so but I still like that he can communicate with us directly without any filters.

I have no problem with you disagreeing with me so we can still be friends!   :beer:
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Re: How Trump Could Be Like Reagan
« Reply #15 on: August 01, 2018, 04:03:23 pm »
Quote from: catfish1957 on August 01, 2018, 03:39:07 pm
I didn't  say I want or need a Saint in there.  Just have him put this thumbs in casts and stop tweeting and making a fool of himself.

The people bent out of shape about that shit are the same people concerned about who Jay Z is dating and take pictures and post what they ate for breakfast. It all irrelevant noise.
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Re: How Trump Could Be Like Reagan
« Reply #16 on: August 01, 2018, 04:09:37 pm »
Quote from: Frank Cannon on August 01, 2018, 04:03:23 pm
The people bent out of shape about that shit are the same people concerned about who Jay Z is dating and take pictures and post what they ate for breakfast. It all irrelevant noise.

If anybody on this planet can get people to get off their ass and vote...stand in lines...for the mid-terms, it's Donald J. Trump.

These rallies are all covered and seen by his base.   Which is 84% of the Republican Party.

To overcome this incessant 24/7 media/cable news attack on him, they're going to need record-breaking turnout.
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Re: How Trump Could Be Like Reagan
« Reply #17 on: August 01, 2018, 04:30:37 pm »
Trump was tweeting a long time before becoming president. Considering how effective his tweeting has been in knocking down media straw men and bypassing the dishonest media since getting elected, he should have made it a promise during his campaign to continue tweeting no matter what. It’s working beautifully against media propagandists. I didn’t know when we got Trump that his tweets would be a bonus.
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Re: How Trump Could Be Like Reagan
« Reply #18 on: August 01, 2018, 06:18:13 pm »
I lived through Reagan. Plus I have read and listened to what he said, and how he said it.

His detractors then were horrified about that. He joined Goldwater, Nixon and was called Hitler; a Nazi.


At the time,, many "Republicans" joined democrats and the liberal press, to criticize Reagan's (equivalent of) Tweets
For example, his speechwriters would delete a phrase, but Reagan put it back in.

"Mr Gorbachev,  Tear Down This Wall"

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Re: How Trump Could Be Like Reagan
« Reply #19 on: August 01, 2018, 06:24:26 pm »
Quote from: truth_seeker on August 01, 2018, 06:18:13 pm
I lived through Reagan. Plus I have read and listened to what he said, and how he said it.

His detractors then were horrified about that. He joined Goldwater, Nixon and was called Hitler; a Nazi.

Let's not forget the weekly Anti Nuke and ERA rallies and then when that failed it was protests about how bad the farmers had it. It never ended.
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« Reply #20 on: August 01, 2018, 06:27:29 pm »
Quote from: Frank Cannon on August 01, 2018, 06:24:26 pm
Let's not forget the weekly Anti Nuke and ERA rallies and then when that failed it was protests about how bad the farmers had it. It never ended.

And the pictures and segments on the homeless.  ...street people.   
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Re: How Trump Could Be Like Reagan
« Reply #21 on: August 01, 2018, 06:29:50 pm »
Quote from: DCPatriot on August 01, 2018, 06:27:29 pm
And the pictures and segments on the homeless.  ...street people.

Wasn't that when "Comic Relief" was big, with Billy Crystal and Robin Williams?

Funny how they didn't put those on anymore after Clinton was elected...........
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Re: How Trump Could Be Like Reagan
« Reply #22 on: August 01, 2018, 06:40:22 pm »
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Re: How Trump Could Be Like Reagan
« Reply #24 on: August 01, 2018, 07:01:14 pm »
Quote from: truth_seeker on August 01, 2018, 06:40:22 pm


They misspelled Trump....oh...wait....
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