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    Quote Originally Posted by MisterVeritis View Post
    The context involves changes to the export import bank law. There is one paragraph with two bullet points where the connection to the export import bank law is not clear.
    The word "tax" does not even appear in the text. It clearly applies to ANY "US persons" who engage in interstate or foreign commerce.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Private Pickle View Post
    Brought upon by foreign nations or international bodies...
    If an American business wants to support a boycott movement, what difference does it make who fostered or imposed said boycott? Americans have every right to withhold their business and to use their business to promote their political beliefs, do they not?
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    Quote Originally Posted by Private Pickle View Post
    Clarifies more like.
    The issue remains fundamentally unchanged.

    The US government is trying to criminalize commercial boycotts of Israel.

    This is a flagrant attack on our rights and our sovereignty.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Private Pickle View Post
    Not so much.
    How do you figure?
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    Quote Originally Posted by Ethereal View Post
    The word "tax" does not even appear in the text. It clearly applies to ANY "US persons" who engage in interstate or foreign commerce.
    Context is important. The export import bank uses American taxpayer dollars to fund businesses. If you are planning to boycott a friendly country you cannot use American taxpayer dollars to do so.

    Do you believe this act does something other than change the export import bank law?
    Call your state legislators and insist they approve the Article V convention of States to propose amendments.


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    Quote Originally Posted by Ethereal View Post
    The issue remains fundamentally unchanged.

    The US government is trying to criminalize commercial boycotts of Israel.

    This is a flagrant attack on our rights and our sovereignty.
    I believe you are in error. To know for certain would require reading more than the poorly worded summary.
    Call your state legislators and insist they approve the Article V convention of States to propose amendments.


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    Quote Originally Posted by Private Pickle View Post
    At the behest of foreign nations or international entities.
    So what? What right does the US government have to tell me who I am allowed to boycott? It's my business. It's my property. I should have the right to withhold my services from whoever I want for any reason I want.
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    Quote Originally Posted by MisterVeritis View Post
    Context is important. The export import bank uses American taxpayer dollars to fund businesses. If you are planning to boycott a friendly country you cannot use American taxpayer dollars to do so.

    Do you believe this act does something other than change the export import bank law?
    From the text of the bill:

    The bill prohibits U.S. persons engaged in interstate or foreign commerce from:
    (1) requesting the imposition of any boycott by a foreign country against a country which is friendly to the United States; or
    (2) supporting any boycott fostered or imposed by an international organization, or requesting imposition of any such boycott, against Israel.
    Read this, comprehend it, and then get back to me.
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    Quote Originally Posted by MisterVeritis View Post
    I believe you are in error. To know for certain would require reading more than the poorly worded summary.
    The bill prohibits U.S. persons engaged in interstate or foreign commerce from:
    • requesting the imposition of any boycott by a foreign country against a country which is friendly to the United States; or
    • supporting any boycott fostered or imposed by an international organization, or requesting imposition of any such boycott, against Israel.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Ethereal View Post
    From the text of the bill:
    Read this, comprehend it, and then get back to me.
    That looks like it was from the poorly worded summary.
    Call your state legislators and insist they approve the Article V convention of States to propose amendments.


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