Posted on 04/21/2016 7:40:14 AM PDT by GilGil
Poorer? That's laughable. Trade deficits don't matter right? You sound like the liberal idiots that tell us budget deficits don't matter. LOL.
Free Traitors™ seem to hate nationalism or American pride. FOAD.
Yep, poorer. Hurl all the insults you like, but you can’t force people to pay $27/hr for something they can get for $3/hr elsewhere.
Oh sure, you can use the dead hand of government to try to enforce a dictate that compels adhesion contrary to the law of supply and demand, but at that point you are not only frustrating the producer, bilking the consumer, and stifling economic growth, you’ve also taken the first step down the road to totalitarianism.
And even if you were successful in implementing such draconian policy, you would quickly find that things worth $3 in your economy would cost $27. Not for the ‘corporate globalist whatevers’ that serve as your own particular whipping-boy, but for the people trying to make ends meet to whom the costs of your politics are ultimately passed.
What people? Are products cheaper that are made in Mexico.? Is Carrier, Ford and Nabisco going to reduce prices to the consumer now that virtual slaves make their products? Hmm? are they?
So was George Washington and the first congress a totalitarian government when they passed the Tariff act of 1789? What a baffoon you are. A globalist tool. The Chinese government thanks you.
More tariffs and less income taxes.
PS: Marx was a Free Trader like you.
My understanding is that Mike Pence cannot stand the thought of Donald Trump but will likely not endorse Cruz as it might be bad for his re-election campaign.
Then Marx got at least one thing right ;) You keep using the same tactics... ‘Ooo, George Washington like this! It good! Gooooood!’ ‘Marx like that! It baaaaaad!’ How simplistic.
Many, including Washington, had Mercantilist leanings, but they were a product of the times... in the 18th century, Mercantilism still hadn’t been as thoroughly debunked as it is now. To continue to cling to it in the 21st century will only relegate the economies that do so to second-class status, a plight you’d seem to welcome for the United States.
And yes, Carrier, Ford and Nabisco WILL reduce prices to the consumer eventually, or lose out on market share. If Carrier charges $27 in the United States for something that costs them $3 to make in Mexico, then you, my friend, have a wonderful business opportunity... because YOU can go to Mexico and pay $4 to workers who will jump ship to you, and then charge $12 for it in the U.S. to consumers who will gladly pay less than half of what they were. Mexicans get richer, and Americans get richer. That’s the core part of the argument begun by David Hume that ultimately brought down mercantilism as a doctrine.
Except in certain portions of the Trump camp, it seems ;)
“U.S. employees make more than $3 an hour. “
Yes, due to statute, which is actually stronger than regulation.
Their reasons can be debated all day. When you come right down to it, if you think the company is doing the wrong thing, whether it’s Carrier, “Big Oil”, or insurance companies, etc., there’s nothing stopping you from getting together with a group of like minded people and opening YOUR OWN company and doing things the RIGHT way (at least, what you THINK is the right way).
Same goes for environmentalists, for example, when they worry about use of land. Given the money pouring into environmental causes, you’d think it’d be cheaper to just BUY the land in question and they can let all the critters roam around on it, etc..
I think there’s a conservation group that does that... actually buys up land for conservation, but I forget their name. Anyway, I’m all for that... if they want to buy it, they get to do what they like with it, and to heck with the guys who just want to lobby the government to force others to do what they want without putting any skin in the game.
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