Check out what Mitt Romney said about tariffs in 2012

by SooperMexican

So listen, we’ve been pretty critical of Trump supporting tariffs on steel and aluminum because we don’t think it’ll help the economy and there’s all sorts of reasons to believe that.

BUT anyone who criticizes Trump as if tariffs were exclusively his idea aren’t gonna enjoy this video unearthed about Mitt Romney.

Here’s what he said about tariffs against China in 2012:

Huh. Weird.

Here’s more about Romney tariffs:

Q: Is China the greatest future threat to national security?
ROMNEY: We’ll make sure that we have trade relations with China that work for us. That’s why on day one I will label them a currency manipulator.

Q: If you declare them a currency manipulator on day one, some people are saying you’re just going to start a trade war with China on day one.

ROMNEY: Well, they sell us about this much stuff every year. So it’s pretty clear who doesn’t want a trade war. And there’s one going on right now that we don’t know about. It’s a silent one and they’re winning. We have an enormous trade imbalance with China. And it’s worse this year than last year. And it was worse last year than the year before. We have to say to our friends in China, look, you guys are playing aggressively, but this can’t keep on going. You can’t keep on holding down the value of your currency, stealing our intellectual property, counterfeiting our products, selling them even into the US.

So is there anything substantively different from Trump’s stance to Romney’s? You might be able to say Romney is probably more knowledgable about the position, but in substance, they are the same.


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