Posted on 08/02/2017 9:34:37 AM PDT by Eric Pode of Croydon
And sugar?
British Columbia Premier John Horgan says Canada and the United States are close to reaching a softwood lumber trade deal that could come as early as next month.
More Americans working plus non income tax revenue. A win-win.
What POTUS Trump should have did was open up all the National Forests to logging, the eco-twits have ruled the timber ind for far too long.
We should have general tarriffs across the board, like we had for 180 years.
Putting Americans back to work will do more for the housing industry than keeping lumber prices low for the unemployed to wish they could afford.
I was just pricing lumber for a new deck at Home Depot last week. 16 foot 6x6 posts, $44, that sounded pretty cheap to me.
I’ve built a house or two. 24% increase in lumber? I am not seeing that at the lumber yard.....
Isn't that what tariffs are supposed to do?
No one likes taxes.
No one likes tariffs.
Yet each has its place. Both feed the government beast and help make government larger. If we push for smaller government, we can get by with lower taxes and lower tariffs.
Tariffs have the advantage of protecting American businesses and keeping American workers employed. Taxes do neither of these things.
I would support “free trade” if other nations did the same. But they don’t. A lot of nations try to stack the deck and that helps their businesses and hurts our businesses. An increased push for tariffs is really just counter-balancing an unequal situation which has gone on too long.
And sugar?
*************
Sugar destroyed south Florida... we have aquatic death pouring out the east and west canal through Okechobee... and for what? To protect a business that is politically connected... The world price for sugar is $0.10 a pound ,, we pay $0.50 at retail or more... just google “world price sugar wholesale” and the first page is nothing but US sugar interests webpages giving excuses and apologies and telling us why their subsidies are really good for us.
We have been losing large corporations that use sugar to Mexico for a long time now ,, if you make breads , cakes or candies your plant is in Mexico where you can get ingredients at a fraction of the price here.
There is no bigger burden than losing your job because other countries are allowed dump their product in the USA duty free.
I’ve noticed the price of Oreo’s have fallen since moving production to Mexico. /sarcasm
“Tariffs on specific industries and products are corporate welfare, paid for by the American consumer, benefiting political cronies. “
What an idiotic statement.
Cheap foreign imports are taxes on the American worker who are the consumers as their jobs are sent overseas.
How do you expect “consumers” to buy anything if they don’t have jobs??
You are a traitor to your country by wanting cheap imports.
Why don’t you just move to those cheap foreign countries and get it over with??
There is no substitute for a tariff. Especially when every other country applies then to our exports.
some how I haven’t seen your posts recently.
I wanted to ask if you have Netflix?
Hence the term: Free Traitor™. Limbots all.....
ALL TAXES ARE TAXES ON CONSUMERS.
Duh.
Why is this criticism only raised with tariffs?
It’s like everyone in the media works for China.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.