China considers Manned Moon Landing following breakthrough Chang’e-3 mission success

universetoday.com ^ | January 15, 2014 | Ken Kremer on

[from occupied ga]

You're utterly without a clue as to the effect of taxes/tariffs. Your level of lack of understanding approaches that of a government employee. I suggest you read Bastiat or this article by Gary North.

[Cringing Negativism Network]

China is now the largest exporter in the globe.

That is rapidly growing.

Bring back jobs to America.

[central_va]

When you defend “free trade” you defend the income tax and progressivism. When you defend tariffs, like our founders did in the late 18th century, you are defending a conservative position.

[from occupied ga]

Get back to me when you have something to say. or not, your choice

[from occupied ga]

When you defend “free trade” you defend the income tax and progressivism

Bull sh!t

[spel_grammer_an_punct_polise]

“but a permanent base.”

I say to the Chinese: Good luck with that! They will not be successful without Western engineering/technology which they are stealing from us.

“The Chinese reflexively dismissed everything that wasn’t Chinese as inherently inferior because they could not conceive that something that wasn’t Chinese wasn’t inherently inferior,”

I am reminded of, “The King And I” where the ‘king’ of Thailand just KNEW that his country was the biggest, greatest on the planet. All countries of any substance feel that way so that the Chinese culture does not differ from any other in that regard.

Their ‘closed door’ policy worked for them but not for the world. The world wanted them to ‘open the doors’. They simply wanted to be left alone but the world did not want that. They have now opened the doors and the ‘negative’ influences of the rest of the world are now ‘corrupting’ their society. I find it unfortunate even though I was the representative of the first American company to sign a very large contract with the Chinese government in 1975 so that I have hands-on, first-hand knowledge of the Chinese culture.

[central_va]

If you knew history you’d know the progressives wanted to eliminate tariffs and institute a more aggressive tax system, i.e. income taxes, around 100 years ago.

[from occupied ga]

If you knew history you’d know the progressives wanted to eliminate tariffs and institute a more aggressive tax system, i.e. income taxes, around 100 years ago

If you were completely honest you would acknowledge that progressives did not want to eliminate any tariffs, but rather wanted to add additional taxes and did. Further you would acknowledge that tariffs are like all taxes a burden on the economy. Ever hear of Smoot Hawley? I suggest you read the short article in the link.

[central_va]

Ah the Smoot-Hawley Red Herring.

Imports during 1929 were only 4.2% of the United States' GNP and exports were only 5.0%. Monetarists, such as Milton Friedman, who emphasize the central role of the money supply in causing the depression, note that the Smoot-Hawley Act only had a contributory effect on the entire U.S. economy.

We manufactured our own junk back then, we had a trade surplus. Trade was only 5% of GDP, Smoot Hawley could not have had a major impact on the Depression.

[from occupied ga]

Try reading this