To: arthurus
We have a $342 billion trade deficit with China because the playing field isn’t level and because we have scumbag politicians that are selling us out to the highest bidders. We shouldn’t be trying to make the playing field level by lowering our standard of living to that of the ChiCom slave. We really shouldn’t elect politicians that accept “donations” from foreign governments and corporations in exchange for influence over our policies. oh, and we definitely shouldn’t trust Obama with fast track authority over one of the largest trade agreements in the world. Pretty sure we shouldn’t trust him period.
52 posted on
05/15/2015 5:14:11 AM PDT by
RC one
(Militarized law enforcement is just a politically correct way of saying martial law enforcement.)
To: RC one
Definitely. We shouldn't even be talking about playing fields because that connotes "fairness." Fairness is controlled and hampered trade. What we need is one sided- our side- fee trade. We can't have free trade, or we can't get any good out of, it so long as we tax hell out of our own businesses and suffocate them with regulation and requirements. Government interference should go no farther than the Constitutional mandate for guaranteeing weights and measures, and by extension of that, perhaps, truth in advertising. If we did that then the restrictions placed on business and trade by other countries would make us richer as it would chase investment to America. Cheapening the money to make one's country "more competitive" is a world class fool's game. The only trade restriction justified really is a uniform tariff for the purpose of raising revenue for the government but only if there is no income tax or national sales tax.
57 posted on
05/15/2015 6:17:13 AM PDT by
arthurus
(.it's true!)
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