If Tariffs are an executive power, why?
- Thread starter Jarod
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Even The Felon has acknowledged the limits on his power in this area!
www.bbc.com
Trump to hit Mexico with tariffs in anti-immigration measure
The US president says he will impose rising tariffs until Mexico ends illegal immigration to the US.
www.bbc.com
MAGA morons want a dictator, and they were just bullshitting us all those years they professed to be strict constitutional loyalists.
They want a dictator when The Felon is in charge, but otherwise...
Congress has the power to regulate foreign commerce, impose tariffs, and collect revenue. The president can impose tariffs in various special circumstances. Trump seized power from Congress, and the Republican-controlled Congress allowed him to do so. This is not what it means.
Correct, once a Democrat is president again, MAGAs will magically transform back into strict constitutionalists.
Teflon Don
I'm back baby
Veruca it is the same old MO with you.
1) start a shit post
2) bemoan people not responding to it within 2 minutes of you posting
3) assume you have come up with some brilliant point nobody can refute and claim victory
OR
4) Get your ass handed to you and then run away pretending you never started the thread in the first place
Have you ever thought that maybe your topic is stupid and that you are stupid and people don't want to waste time with your shit posts? Have you ever thought of that? Or do you just think that everything that emanates from your fingertips is sheer brilliance? What podcast did you hear this from that gave you the idea to start this thread in the first place?
Where does the Constitution give the Executive Tariff power?
Teflon Don
I'm back baby
So you want to go with Option 4?
Here you go Veruca. While the US Constitution does not give the power to tariff to the President, Congress has delegated it to be so three times.
a) Trade Expansion Act of 1962 (Section 232) - authorizes the President to impose tariffs or other trade restrictions if imports threaten national security
b) Trade Act of 1974 (Section 301) - empowers the President to impose tariffs or take other actions in response to unfair trade practices by other countries
c) International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA) of 1977 - Grants the President broad authority to regulate commerce during a national emergency that threatens national security, foreign policy or the economy
Why did you only bring up the IEEPA in your shit post and not there other acts passed by Congress?
Were you not aware of them? Being deliberately misleading?
Teflon Don
I'm back baby
Ladies and Gentleman I give you Exhibit A
Jarod starts shit post. Complains people aren't responding. Then he gets his ass kicked. Then he runs away.
It is like clockwork
Jarod starts shit post. Complains people aren't responding. Then he gets his ass kicked. Then he runs away.
It is like clockwork
T. A. Gardner
Thread Killer
Because Congress is intellectually and morally lazy.
None of that is from the Constitution... did you understand the question?
But it proves my point, the power is with CONGRESS unless they give it to the Executive, right?
I had a lunch, but I am back... Why cant you provide any evidence where the Constitution gave the Executive power over tariffs?
Teflon Don
I'm back baby
So are you saying that the only thing that anyone can do has to come straight from the Constitution? If it isn't explicitly in the US Constitution it shouldn't be done?
There was nothing explicit in the US Constitution saying the Supreme Court gets to interpret the US Constitution, but they gave themselves that power.
Are you sure you want to continue down this road Veruca? I know you think you landed on some unassailable talking point, but I don't think this is going to end the way you think it will
The power of the courts to decide questions of law is explicitly stated in Article 3.
The President has only the powers given to him by the Constitution, nothing more.
Read Article III