Posted on 04/18/2005 6:37:40 AM PDT by A. Pole
What needs explaining? Apparently, you have no trouble with our government picking winners and losers as a matter of policy.
Can you explain why globalist tax theory fails, but globalist trade theory holds?
We opened up trade with China, which had been dirt-poor before, and it is becoming wealthy. We haven't traded with Cuba, and it remains dirt-poor.
I would just as soon see all totalitarian states remain poor and relatively weak. In fact, although I don't think that it would have much impact now, I would still like us to stop "free" trade with China, whose government I think is a repugnant one.
It is not a government that we should be supporting in any way, and we certainly should not be making a bellicose, totalitarian state wealthy.
No, I don't have a problem with a trade policy that picks American producers to be the winners over foreign socialist producers. You do?
Can you refute the teachings of Thomas Sowell?
"The US market is the market to be in for American producers or foreign producers."
That is true today, but China is growing at more than double our rate, has been doing so for more than a decade now and that is expected to continue for the foreseeable future. One of the big carmakers, GM I think, expects the Chinese auto market to be larger than ours by 2020.
Let's stick to this article, dissembler.
(The predictable response by the U.S., of course, was to raise the tariff even higher -- but that only made things worse!)
More importantly, the improvements in productivity at Canadian mills made U.S. producers utterly uncompetitive in cases where the tariff doesn't apply -- like in export markets in Asia.
Your point about Santa Cruz County may be a valid one, but let me ask you this . . . your comment could just as easily apply to a manufacturing facility as to a forest, so what makes you think anything would be different in the manufacturing sector if the U.S. were to impose a tariff on Chinese imports?
That should come as no surprise, considering that China's population is about four times larger than ours.
Here's a bizarre statistic for you . . . there are more people in China who speak English as a second language than there are native English speakers in the United States!
Are you suggesting that American made cars will fill China's demand? Or, is it more reasonable to assume that China will force car makers to relocate to China?
All tariffs will do for us is allow the US Govt to keep our regulations high, keep taxes high, and take those once-cheap goods and put the tariff amount from your pocket into the government's. Do you want to pay more to our federal government ? I think paying over 40% now is a wee bit the reason why we cannot compete with some of these countries.
All Buchanan is advocating here is to increase the take of the federal government and a lower living standard for us all. You like paying double the world price for sugar, for example ? My first computer, in 1982, cost me $ 4000 without a hard drive (it had 2 floppies). Now ? Hundreds of times cheaper. Am I better off with trade ? You bet.
Von Mises will tell you, if you read him, is that those governments who subsidize their industries are making a wealth transfer from their nation to those they trade with.
Oh, because the socialist Byrd corrupts the tariff system with kick-backs to companies, tariffs are socialist? 1foolboy?
Marx was not a believer in free trade, he was for it specifically because of his belief that it would aid in the destruction of capitalist societies. Therefore, if you think free trade will be harmful to our society, you and Karl Marx agree.
Asia market wiull be the next big thing for BC. I've heard they're making more money in asia than in the US.
No, you've convinced me. Tariffs are free-market capitalism. /sarc
Why don't you attack the regulations(and property taxes)and not the tariffs. They are substantially the reason why US goods cost more.
With the exception of characterizing Britain as a mature nation, I respectfully disagree.
The sun did not begin to truly set on the British Empire until after the turn of the century. Probably, I would be safe in claiming the decline came part and parcel with WWI. Britain declared war on Germany in the name of the Empire, but the individual dominions signed the armistice under their own signature and joined the League of Nations as independent States.
All through the 19th century the empire expanded. It was pretty much a blooming flower for a very long time.
Democrats betray their labor ties because globalists have bought them off, therefore if you support free trade you have been bought off, too.
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