Posted on 12/21/2013 8:02:47 AM PST by Kaslin
America uses restrictive laws to DRIVE JOBS FROM AMERICA.
We need to look out for American jobs.
If the idiotic regulations we have now haven't done that, obviously we need more.
If this were done, there would be ZERO government growth.
How high would this tax be? After the drop in our standard of living, how do you stop the government from increasing in size, to make up the shortfall?
Right, we need to pay people $15-20 an hour to make silly little trinkets.
America’s experiment with importing everything has failed.
We need jobs right here in America.
Bring back US jobs. Now.
Last year, we exported $1.545 trillion while we imported $2.275 trillion. 2012 GDP was $16.2 trillion.
I'd hardly call imports of 14% of GDP with exports of 9.5% of GDP, "importing everything".
Sure there is.
You're free not to do business there. You free not to do any business with anyone who does.
The only entity that can compel you to do anything against your will is here, in the US.
A government that guarantees freedom, which protects and defends the natural rights of its citizens, not sure I'd call that capitalism.
RE: “Now China exports more than we do.”
True, but just slightly more.
Equally important is productivity per worker.
America has about 12 million industrial workers.
China needs about 100 million industrial workers to stay slightly ahead of us!
Well China has five times America’s population, and now exports more than America.
We need to wake the heck up, and compete with China.
Not by outsourcing to China.
Compete with them!
I agree, we need to compete.
But, in the very near future, that competition will come from machines and robots, not from particular countries.
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