Posted on 02/04/2016 6:18:16 AM PST by Kaslin
The Chinese import something from us?....
We don't have a free trade agreement with China.
Trump thinks so many levels above most people - this is another example of it. Tariffs are a *negotiations tool* - People don’t understand that, and then write ignorant opinion pieces like this one.
Tariffs served a valuable function and propelled and transformed the USA to industrial power house up until 1913. They are part of US history and good part at that. The income tax era that Free Traitors defacto support not so much.
Yes the ratio is about 3:1 in favor of the gooks.
Being able to make stuff besides printing bills of exchange matters.
Freepers who clearly understand that you can’t just pay burger flippers $15 an hour don’t seem to get it that the days of millions of American men standing on the line, bolting together washing machines, or snapping tubes into TV chassis, are over. Over.
We need to figure out how to make an economy work under that reality.
The “reality” is that Goldman Sachs & the rest of the transnational crony capitalists do not give a flip about Main Street. Do you think they care if a Mexican flop house opens next door to you? Do you think they care if your kids teacher doesn’t have time for them because the class is full of non English speakers?
We need to pump the breaks now. We’re being led by the nose by people who do not have our best interests at heart. Until people like you understand that nothing will change.
Right! But Larry Elder apparently thinks we do.
It damn sure does. The next time any American buys some cheap piece of Chinese made junk they should ask themselves if the money they're saving is worth subjecting millions of Chinese laborers to near slave condition and subjecting millions of American workers to forced idleness.
“Tariffs are the wrong answer, the Chinese will retaliate.”
A meaningless threat. China already controls imports through both tariffs and non-tariff barriers.
A tariff is OK to raise revenue, that’s what taxes are for. Our Internal Revenue Code contains a lot if items that are designed to manipulate behavior, which is not what taxes are supposed to do. Tariffs designed to discourage buying imported goods are in that same classification.
Let the buyer and the seller beware, and have the freedom to make their own decisions.
Milton Friedman once said that the problem with free trader is that its beneficiaries are many, and they don’t know who they are, while its victims are few, and they do know who they are.
What’s lost in this whole debate is individual freedom and responsibility.
The Chinese already have tariffs on our products. They just call it something else. Combine that with the currency manipulation and this so called free trade is a loser for the US. The Koreans have another flim-flam scam that falls under the free trade guise. Korean machine tool companies can sell at a loss and receive a check from the government at the end of the year to make up the difference. Anyone that thinks we have free trade in this world are delusional. This “free trade” is part of the reason why our wages have not increased over the past 25 years.
Yes. Re-negotiating flawed trade agreements is not going to hurt the American consumer.
Well, he does.
Nearly every day!
Yet amazingly, that type of work is still done in the USA albeit a lot less of it. But given enough time the Free Traitors™ will complete their mission of de industrializing the USA leaving future generations of Americans defenseless against Asia and the Chi Com regime which is not going anyway. Thanks Free Traitors™.
If a foreign country can supply us with a commodity cheaper than we ourselves can make it, better buy it of them with some part of the produce of our own industry employed in a way in which we have some advantage. The general industry of the country, being always in proportion to the capital which employs it, will not thereby be diminished ... but only left to find out the way in which it can be employed with the greatest advantage.
In other words, the assumption that Adam Smith made was that capital within a country would be redeployed to where a comparative advantage existed. It did not assume that the total level of production in the home country (e.g. England or say the U.S.) would be diminished in favor of a foreign competitor (e.g. France or in our case China).
I love you——In a manly kinda way.
Everything needs to be considered to be on the table.
If Chinese think Donald is a little crazy, that can help.
Your first problem is having a girlfriend in that cesspool of a city.
Other than that, the socialist jerks in Ottawa like to make sure they make money on any cross border shopping, or everyone would go south of the line and not a soul would buy a damn thing in this overpriced socialist cesspool (Canada, minus Alberta and Saskatchewan).
So anything over a certain dollar amount, they simply make you pay duty on it. Hurray!
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