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So you support his support of literal NAZIs? Because I for one blame the NAZIs - unless you'd like to support the NAZIs in blaming the people opposing the NAZIs.

I'm pretty comfortable blaming the literal NAZIs for the violence that occurred - the sort of which was seen at rallies the last time a country saw a government supported by literal NAZIs. Also you're incorrect in calling out a comparison between this and Obama's refusal to blame "radical...

Look - if you want to have an impact on the federal budget FWA is a drop in the bucket. The only way to have any meaningful or significant change to federal spending you have to curtail entitlements and defence spending. Combining all non-discretionary spending (Social Security, Medicare...

Said literally everyone advocating tax cuts when making the tax cuts. Said by literally no one ever in power after tax cuts have been implemented and asked to cut popular spending programs like Medicare, Defence, or Social Security.

No you're not. You're entitled to breach the agreement (though really, doing so before getting a declaration that the agreement has been breached by the counterparty raises legal risk), but they don't owe you anything because they never agreed to pay you anything. Even more, there's nothing...

The latter part (giving to the media), not the unmasking part.

Completely agree - and it shows exactly what happens when you pal around with known criminals or foreign spies... you turn up on wiretaps or surveillance:

So you have zero problems with Eminent Domain claims so long as compensation is paid. Right, gotcha, filed that one away for later.

I'm not understanding why Trump's people consider this a "win" in any way. It's made 100% clear that no one on his team were wiretapped or surveilled in any way. Rather, the US was surveilling a known Russian intelligence operative. I should hope that we're all ok with foreign spies being...

Except two factors. One - I take the subway and many people in my city who commute via mass transit take a regional commuter train. Two - road use through mass transit is already captured through the fare system (for those that use busses). Your system is dumb and regressive. Taxing those...

As someone that literally grew up in the foreign service and now is professionally engaged in that "sphere" I can say among professionals my experience has been that the BBC World Service (as opposed to simply the BBC) is considered the best or one of the best sources of news. Every hour, on...

Except I don't drive. I don't carpool. I don't use the bus. When the weather is nice I walk, when the weather is ugly I take a subway. I (very) infrequently take an Uber, but then the costs can be paid by the driver and passed on as a fare. Your idea only has a patina of equity in a world...

Look a P3 project can be incredibly valuable. If there's a project that's borderline profitability, or borderline public utility, it makes sense to leverage the private sector with public financing and plans. But if you looked at Trump's plan most of his $1T in "Infrastructure Spending" was in...

So then I take it you're backing off the "managed trade" claims, unless you want to discuss specific areas of the agreement you find objectionable? With regard to plants - like I said US manufacturing is higher outputs than ever before. See the Forbes piece from right before the election...

Have you actually read those pages? I have - and it really is free trade. You can't simply appeal to length and then say "Therefore not free trade". So what are those pages? First we have the baseline commitment - zero tariffs on all headings in the HTS. You then have a few small carve outs...

Can I get what you mean by "fairly administered". Is it a matter of reciprocity in the agreement itself? Rules of Origin? Dumping?

[Staff edit]. That said, I'd still like to engage with the underlying point. I think we can agree the plans, with treaties as they are, would be vioaltions of the various agreements the US has in place. So I'd like to know if you have any conception of what agreements need to be amended and...

[Staff edit]. Nowhere did he [ETA: Dysert] suggest renegotiating treaties. He mentioned establishing trade barriers to make it more expensive for foreign companies to sell and taxing companies that go overseas and sell back into the US (a preferential tax discriminating against what is, now, a...

Nowhere did he suggest renegotiating treaties. He mentioned establishing trade barriers to make it more expensive for foreign companies to sell and taxing companies that go overseas and sell back into the US (a preferential tax discriminating against what is, now, a foreign corporation). Both...

Manufacturing production is at all time highs. Clearly the system is working. Also everything after reducing business taxes or regulations in your list? Violate a whole whack of treaties and agreements (which would in turn open up the US to either retaliatory tariffs or an ISDS suit).