Lol, Mitch dumps water all over Trump's tariff BS:
Via Igor Bobic:
Whoa: McConnell answered a #Trump question today, on his tariff proposals
“I'm not a fan of #tariffs. They raise the prices for American consumers. I'm more of a free trade kind of Republican that remembers how many jobs were created by the export that we engage in,” he said
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The GST implementation triggered a boom in the dark economy and a recession. And collapsed Mulroney's political party as he cheated to jam it through.
That's what sales taxes do - punish purchases, so people purchase less.
tvo.org/article/mean-spirited-…
washingtonpost.com/archive/pol…
cbc.ca/archives/when-brian-mul…
Mulroney & his "conservatives" are still hated for the GST.
MULRONEY INVOKES CROWN TO FORCE APPROVAL OF TAX
William Claiborne (The Washington Post)