[Windflier]

We have now imported trillions of dollars of manufactured things, and exported millions and millions of American jobs. I say enough of both. Tax imports, and tax exported goods. Now.

You'll always attract more flies with honey than you will with vinegar.

Your solution to bringing jobs back to the US is purely punitive. Punish businesses (foreign and domestic) and the pain is simply passed on to the end consumer.

A better solution is for us to make doing in the US more attractive by lowering government-imposed taxes and regulations. That's the conservative answer to the problem.

[Cringing Negativism Network]

Advocating for America manufacturing is likewise conservative.

Except my idea, strengthens America.

Yours weakens her.

Think about that for just a moment. America was how strong relative to the world, at this time 20 years ago?

(I’ll answer that without hesitation, we were the unquestioned Superpower in the globe.)

How about 10 years ago.

How about now?

Seriously. How can there be any question, we have become much, much weaker. All because of globalization.

Wake up America. We need American jobs.

[familyop]

China Imposes Tariff on US Car Imports

WTO helping China Loot Caterpillar
americanthinker.com ^ | 10/04/2010 | Howard Richman & Raymond Richman

"Why can’t Caterpillar make a profit exporting mini-excavators to China? The answer is simple: China has a 30% tariff on all excavators. In fact it has a similar high tariff on just about every vehicle, be it a Ford car, a GMC truck, a Harley Davidson motorcycle, or a giant mining machine made by Bucyrus International."

The United States Constitution, Article I, Section 8:
“The Congress shall have Power To lay and collect Taxes, Duties, Imposts and Excises, to pay the Debts and provide for the common Defence and general Welfare of the United States; but all Duties, Imposts and Excises shall be uniform throughout the United States;...To regulate Commerce with foreign Nations,...”

The Tariff Act of 1789 was the first national source of revenue for the newly formed United States.