Posted on 01/30/2015 10:55:57 AM PST by raptor22
But they don’t have universal Obamacare like we do, we will stay healthy while they will be sick.
TO which Obama and Dempsey said, “We don’t care” and to which Obama said by himself, “YES I DID”.
At some point quantity assumes a quality all its own.
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Dump the unions, dump the idiot regulations, muzzle and handicap the EPA, watch industry come back.
There are * many* products that we use every day that cannot be made at any price in the US any more due to the EPA alone.
CHINA THREAT PING
Kinda like Eurojihadis have arms dominance?
Increasing tariffs won’t help bring industry back. See my immediately prior posts above - there are things we cannot make at any price in the US any more. One example is car and other lead acid batteries. Thanks to the EPA, as of this year we don’t have any more domestic lead processing capability. The lead mines all were EPA’d long ago in the US, and now the last US lead processor is gone. How do you propose tariffs could help this? The only thing this would do is mean nobody in the US got batteries at all or that they would cost a fortune, not that they would be made in the US again.
Our military is made up of relatively small quantities of weapons systems that are ridiculously expensive and difficult to replace. Add to that the fact that our leaders and electorate have no stomach for casualties. We have a cow about annual casualty figures that are less for a year than what we lost in a single day in WWII. It doesn’t take Sun Tzu to figure out how to beat us.
Thank you, one of the best post I’ve ever read on FR. It’s way past time the free traitors realize China is our major enemy. Giving the golfer in chief “fast-track authority” is pure suicide for our country. I’ll have to say though the trade deals with the Japanese were just as bad. They destroyed eight of the top ten industries in our country. My state was particularly hard hit. At one time I read of Japanese flags flying over my city. Good thing I wasn’t there that day, you would have seen me arrested for urinating on their flags, My uncle was a Marine on Okinawa. The idiots in our country don’t have a clue what is about to happen to them.
So build up to counter them! Duh!
Most of the industries lost were not EPA’d out of existence. They were lost due to the wage differential between us and China.
The tarriffs which were lowered in the 1960’s. They served our country well. Right now an importer pays on average 1%, much much less than a domestic producer pays in employment related taxes.
So a tariff can help equalize the tax burden between foreign and domestic producers, offset the wage differential, and even help pay for the costs of having unemployed in the US.
Our founding fathers viewed tariffs as being a tax on foreigners wanting to do business in our markets.
There may be some industries that are so toxic that we want to leave them in China or other third world countries.
Most of the industries lost were not EPA’d out of existence. They were lost due to the wage differential between us and China.
The tarriffs which were lowered in the 1960’s. They served our country well. Right now an importer pays on average 1%, much much less than a domestic producer pays in employment related taxes.
So a tariff can help equalize the tax burden between foreign and domestic producers, offset the wage differential, and even help pay for the costs of having unemployed in the US.
Our founding fathers viewed tariffs as being a tax on foreigners wanting to do business in our markets.
There may be some industries that are so toxic that we want to leave them in China or other third world countries.
Yes, this is true - but now they cannot be established because of the EPA. To give you an example of how bad it is, the EPA now considers steam and water runoff to be a pollutant or toxic waste when emitted in the course of manufacturing anything. I’m talking about just pure H2O with nothing else in it.
Why would any manufacturers want to come back to the U.S. with that insane kind of regulations? Remember, the more money your company has or the larger it is, the more the EPA will extort.
CHINA THREAT PING
+1
The day that PEOPLE ON THIS SITE are willing to take seriously the military capability of China and Russia is the day that I start having hope that this country will FINALLY do what’s necessary to keep us from getting CRUSHED by them.
Indeed. I am saying the same thing about India and Pakistan after 911.
Why did we try to stop them going at each other?
Amen. A lot of strange operatives on this site. Very professional deflectors and corporate pacifists,
RINOS, when will we ever learn?
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