Posted on 03/15/2016 5:58:25 AM PDT by tatown
FL - Polls Close at 8:00pm Eastern NC - Polls Close at 7:30pm Eastern IL - Polls Close at 8:00pm Eastern MO - Polls Close at 8:00pm Eastern OH - Polls Close at 8:30pm Eastern
Did I ever claim Trump to be a paragon of conservatism? Hell, has Trump ever claimed to be a paragon of conservatism?
But even Trump calls a spade a spade when it comes to leftist agitators, not make repeated public statements that defy completely their claim of being a principled conservative just in hopes it can peel votes away from his opponent.
Cruz is a fraud. No person with 2 neurons firing doesn’t know what Chicago was... trying to blame Trump for it? Cruz might as well be Hillary’s running mate with such ludicrous claims.
Me too. I have kind of dodged this issue in “Patriot’s History” but the fact is-—hard to refute except to say “different time”-—is that under Washington through Taft we had tariffs. The nation grew like wildfire.
I have reviewed the scholarly/academic studies and there is no indication that tariffs in any way hurt early American industry up to the Civil War and a lot of evidence that they helped. Further, the only true “free trade” anyone can point to is that which is achieved at the end of a gun-—Britain in the 1800s, America in the mid-20th century. Yeah, free trade works . . . if you enforce it. If not, it’s NOT free trade.
“Truly free trade would benefit the US greatly.”
Yup.
And countries that erect trade barriers mainly (but not exclusively) harm their own people. They protect industries that need not improve, and foist higher non-competitive prices on their people. The winners are the few, the protected, the politically capable. Everyone else loses.
So what’s annoying is the folks here at FR who think trade barriers are going to generally help. They are going to generally hurt widely in a way that is hard to spot. But they will help a few for a little while in a political spoils system.
How that’s different than welfare for the left’s chosen poor people eludes me.
your charts are great. Thanks
NE Ohio voter here. Voted at 11
Absolutely that would help, but the lowest taxes in the world cannot put American products, say, on Japanese shelves. If the Japanese don’t let them in, you simply can’t sell products. No products, no factories, no one to invent machinery that goes into the factories.
The classic free trade comeback is, “Well, those people are worse off because of higher taxes.” For a while, maybe. But what happens when their income levels as a % of total wealth surpass the tax levels? Then you have a rising middle class. Meanwhile we have a hollowed out middle class.
After the shat that went down in Chicago on Friday night, I'd hope so!
Note: I live in the far S.W. suburbs of Chicago and commute to the city every day for work. Trust me, what happened on Friday pissed a lot of people off out here. Many out this way HATE Chicago and have been pissed for a very long time that the city dominates all politics in this state. Who knows, maybe this time will be different.
See post #217.
I agree with Cruz that Trump “should bear some of the responsibility”.
It’s not a trade barrier. China, Japan, Mexico have tariffs that are trade barriers because they keep us out. If China doesn’t want to lose a dime and charges us more we can shop with the competition. We don’t have to do it their way or the highway.
Florida: Trump
Illinois: Cruz
Missouri: Cruz
North Carolina: Trump
Ohio: Kasich
cool graphic
That agrees with my tally.
We are facing tariffs and taxes across the globe. Imbalanced access to the global marketplace does nothing to help Americans in the long run. We buy from marketplaces in which we cannot sell.
Add to that factor currency manipulation, and you have a recipe for a nation enslaved financially to external interests.
Then by all means, vote for Cruz.... If you think when paid agitators show up and disrupt a person that that person is the reason, not the individuals who show up with the stated intent to disrupt, then you believe there is no personal responsibility and might as well Petition Cruz to be Hillary’s VP.
Cruz +4 in Missouri
Cruz +2 in Illinois
Where I agree with Trump is that he is actually addressing it. Anyone that pays attention to the macro-economy knows that there are major problems that have resulted in an enormous loss of our industrial manufacturing base (regulations, tax, unbalanced trade deals, currency devaluation, etc) but the establishment of neither party has articulated a coherent plan to deal with it. The middle class has been crushed and Trump, with all his warts, recognizes it and has become a voice for the silent majority. If you aren’t ‘poor’, a minority, or wealthy, the government has been against you for a long time. I would never advocate the government instituting more welfare for the middle class but instead just stop it’s assault on them.
when I lived in Fremont Oh we had the same thing with hoards on the banks of the river
Thank you!
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