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Give us a protective tariff and we will have the greatest nation on earth,
We’ll be doing something very substantial with the European Union.” ... The EU “treated us so terribly.”
You see the power of the tariff. No one can compete with us because we have by far the biggest piggy bank,
I use no porter or cheese in my family, but such as is made in America,
George Washington boasted, adding We were at our richest from 1870 to 1913. That’s when we were a tariff country,
Remember, we financed the entire government on external revenues up until 1913. Now, everything’s put on the Internal Revenue Service to get it from taxpayers and from corporations. That’s going to change. It’s going to change dramatically.”
First of all we have to see what happens, and assess it, measure it, calibrate the impacts and then develop our response,
the Fianna Fáil leader said In our view, protectionism more generally will harm citizens no matter where they reside, and that tariffs are a negative in respect of economic development,
The European Union has to act as one. We are an economic entity, we have a single market,
We have to be realistic and acknowledge where countries like Estonia, Latvia, Poland and others, and Lithuania, they feel under real threat, sometimes we may not appreciate that as much,
In principle we are open to different types of proposals that would emerge, but I think that is some distance down the road,
I wouldn’t do anything prematurely right now, until we see what exactly is being proposed, if something is being proposed,
Without question Europe cannot continue as it was. The European Union has to make sure there is an enhanced co-operation, sharing of knowledge and experience, creating capacities within the European Union as a whole, to enable people to make sure they can defend themselves as member states of the union,
