Posted on 11/03/2007 10:34:27 AM PDT by pissant
Except that we are hit by tariffs in the form of VAT taxes at just about every border. We have no Vat tax, so there is not a level playing field. Not only that, but the exporters to America get their taxes rebated to them, which we cannot do, according to the WTO. It is a suicide pact that we entered.
And with China, they are cheating in so many other ways as well, and we sit there and take it.
Oh man, so lets all go out and vote for the lesser of two evils....that’ll teach’em.
Newsflash...if we keep fishin from the same ol pond, were gonna keep catchin the same ol big mouth bass.
If we all thought like this, we’d keep gettin folks like Bush and Clinton in office term after term after term.
No thanx, I’m votin for the MOST conservative candidate. No more of this moderate, liberal, compassionate conservative crap.
But those countries are only hurting themselves with their tariffs and VAT taxes. They raise the cost to their citizens and their businesses to do business, which decreases their ability to export competitively, and decreases the standard of living for their citizens. I certainly don't want VAT taxes here. Just because other countries punish their own citizens doesn't mean we should do the same to ourselves.
Not only that, but the exporters to America get their taxes rebated to them, which we cannot do, according to the WTO. It is a suicide pact that we entered.
Perhaps so for certain industries, but whatever industries they want to dump on us frees us to develop other industries because of lower costs in the industries that were dumped. So it's still a losing proposition for the countries that are not practicing free trade. I think our economy, when you compare it to other country's economies, proves that. I'm not into the WTO rules, I don't believe in trade deals other than free trade agreements, so if any agreement we're into with foreign countries that is not free trade, then I would be against it. The UN and every other foreign organization is so socialist that I don't even care what they do, they're beyond the pale. That's why it's important to me to have presidents like Bush who try to hold the line on them and who believe in free trade, so we can let those countries punish themselves. You look at every country that has dumped industries on us and they have ended up paying for it. Japan was in the doldrums for years.
And with China, they are cheating in so many other ways as well, and we sit there and take it.
They're only hurting themselves overall.
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