Ok, hmmm never knew what he chanted at a rally had to be the exact same?! Nearly every politician, I have ever seen on a stage, tailors a message to each audience. I didn’t know there was ONE standard.
Now, I will use my economic degree to help you on the trade deal. (didn’t expect this forum to need remedial classes but…) So say under pre-NAFTA there are 200 companies in a particular economic sector. Those companies are paying X amount in local, state, employee, federal taxes. Plus all the secondary economic functions of maintaining a facility and support functions…
After Nafta (trump and even many big labor/ dems) have argued that the trade deal has enticed and encouraged say 100 of those companies to leave. With them leaving, all the above (pre-nafta) is lost.
Now DJT says if we write a more favorable trade deal perhaps 50 of those companies are coming back. When they come back so does the economic benefits to the US.
Then there is also the issue of cheating and the way the percentages of assembly and manufacturing have been abused by especially the chinese.
“Trade deal revenue goes to the private sector anyway” if this were true then there would be no taxes, licenses, fees issued by the govt. Which we know isn’t true.
