Christo: Chase Oliver dares to vote differently in the presidential election | Society columns book

This is the second of two excerpts from Chase Oliver’s debate against Dr. Arthur B. Laffer (founder of Laffer Associates), an economic research firm. These excerpts detail the impacts on the economy under Donald Trump’s presidential term.

As I said, I worked in the maritime trade. When you transport fabric from Vietnam to your store shelf, it is placed on a ship and then unloaded by longshoremen who are American workers. It is placed on a truck driven by an American worker. It is transported to the railyard facilitated by American workers. Take a train where the engineer is an American worker. He comes from the railyard to another truck driven by an American worker. He was transferred to a warehouse staffed by American workers. Then take another truck to go to your store, which is run by American workers.

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Anthony Christo teaches debate, creative writing, and college preparatory writing at a high school in San Antonio.