Posted on 09/09/2015 3:35:20 AM PDT by nikos1121
Here’s what I see at CNN:
Which I’m watching now, because Fox chased me away. :D
I agree. I’m actually listening to CNN and MSNBC of late. Better coverage of Trump.
I don’t know the answer to your question but the one thing that comes through in Trump’s book is that he will put America, Americans, our military, and our law enforcement first in any decision he makes.
That is why I trust him on immigration and even some of the things I wince at.
You can better understand some of his controversial statements when you understand where they come from.
www.numbersusa.com
My second issue is tax reform and the only way I think is this way. www.thetransactiontax.org
I like Donald Trump, and I hope he will succeed in making American Great Again!
What if the U.S. was free of income both personal and corporate? Would that bring back manufacturing?
www.thetransactiontax.org
Check the above link.
What looks on the surface to be just plain common sense doe s not take into consideration the secondry and tertiary effects of an action. Read Henry Hazlitt's Economics in One Lesson. It is a short book and will give you an amazing talent for economic reasoning. Once you read it you will never again be swayed by politicians' arguments for enacting things to benefit certain groups. Your mind will automatically hear the argument then say "and then ...and then... and the result will be worse for all concerned."
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That's absurd. Sowell is 23-24 years older than Trump, and been a leading conservative economist and commentator 50 years longer than Trump has been conservative on anything. What a classic fan boi kool aid knee pad response. There are intelligent ways to respond to my question while still supporting Trump, but you totally missed it.
you can’t dent the anti trade freepers. They’re so Bernie Sanders liberal on this one issue, and way too blind to have an open mind.
Hey Einstein, we are already in a trade war with the rest of the world it’s just we refuse to fight. They can’t retaliate against import tariffs because our exports are already tariff!
Red states are booming in manufacturing.....we don’t have to do anything but make the country more like the red states.
Conservatism doesn’t have to die,it just has to be kept in chains by the GOPe. That’s why I support Trump. Every other candidate will play the establishment’s game hoping to win.
Early on before i really knew anything about obama i actually, for a brief moment, gave him the benefit of doubt.
That is until he started cozying up to Teddy K. About the same time his radical asscociations became known.
Then i knew what he was all about.
So, far Trump has cozied up to all right people.
He is dispised by all the right people,too. Most who have attacked him at their own risk.
He has got the GOP scrabbling. THeir designated loser Jeb is not going to go up against Hillary or whoever.
And Cruz, who we all agree is the most Constitionally saavy, and definitely smart, is neck and neck with Low-T Jeb?
Sooooo....
Here’s the main reason I will support him. He pisses off the GOPe AND he’s not a democrat. Everyone else is sleeping with each other and just figuring out how to buy more votes with our grandkids money...and by grandkids I mean kids that aren’t even born yet.
At least I’ll get some entertainment in the news as I watch Trump fight with the politicians and bully everyone around. It will be a fun experience and can’t be worse than the last 25+ years of garbage politicians.
Transaction taxes as periodically proposed by socialists and controllers would be more insidious than the income tax. It was proposed for us just a few years ago that there be a tax on all transactions of a mere 1/2 %. Transfers of funds in your bank are such transfers. Every time you write a check or move money from one account to another or receive money into your account or use an ATM there is that 1/2 % tax. It can add up to a huge portion of one’s income or a business’s income. I figured out what that would do to me with my small income and it would put me into actual poverty. I admit, I didn’t go to the link. I have heard too much about and read too much about various transfer tax proposals to even want to hear any more arguments for them.
tariffs against countries that aren’t playing fair (like China) is good. Currency manipulation in China isn’t fair/free trade. So Tariffs are a way to keep the Chinese Yuan at the right level as China tries to manipulate their economy by stealing from others.
We don't trade "as a country" - we have individuals and individual companies that make deals that are in the best interest of their American customers, American investors and American employees. Besides, your plan is undoable. It would require some bureaucrat deciding what is good trade and what is bad trade. In other words, it's just another liberal government control program, preferring the wisdom of bureaucracies to independent businesses. It's centralized control under a more benign name.
I totally reject any argument that makes the assumption that our only choices are Trump and the GOP e. If it comes down to that, I’m all in for Trump, no questions asked. BUT ITS NOT DOWN TO THAT NOW.
Can you make an argument that doesn’t require a phony premise?
you can’t dent the anti trade freepers. They’re so Bernie Sanders liberal on this one issue, and way too blind to have an open mind.
If this were anything like a majority view in the country, there would be American manufacturers of cameras, toasters, TV's, and dress shirts working like crazy to meet the demand for USA-made products made by American workers earning American wages.
Where are they?? NOWHERE.
This leads me to believe that (1) most of the pro-tariff people are blowing smoke, or (2) there really aren't enough of them to keep even a single strip mall busy.
Our President does not set monetary policy for China. That’s a fantasy. A pipe dream. Trump was all about negotiating better with OPEC just a couple year ago...then American production made OPEC irrelevant. Trump’s negotiating never would have. Same with China. We can beat China, or more likely, win while China wins, getting government the hell out of the way. No super savior President is going to do anything about it. The Trump name means nothing in China.
And BTW, some American and some American companies and some American workers are helped when China’s currency is weak. Who the hell are you to say those are inferior to others?
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