[FreedomFriend]

You do realize that your "plan" is bankrupting the country. Of course, this "free trade" is not fair trade. What makes you so confident in an utter failure of a policy?

Furthermore, why is it that protectionist policies brought about a strong America, higher buying power, and less foreign intervention? Unfortunately, you're operating on a failed system, and you're trying to justify the failure that it is. Unfortunately, we may not be able to go back to sane policies, for viewpoints like yours may prevent it. It will then be too late to do anything about it, as our country will be weakened to the point of virtually no return.

Again, facts from the past and present reveals which policy works.

[OrthodoxPresbyterian]

You do realize that your "plan" is bankrupting the country. Of course, this "free trade" is not fair trade. What makes you so confident in an utter failure of a policy?

My "plan" is to seek a major reduction of domestic Taxation and regulation. (a maximum of 10% of GDP seems like a fine guideline to me; why should the State take more than God?) Precisely how would this bankrupt the nation?

I repeat my challenge:

Of the two options below, pick the scenario most likely to encourage economic growth:

• Scenario 1 -- Let's raise Domestic Taxation and regulation to 90% and raise Import Tariffs to 100%. (do remember, btw, that this doubles the Cost of raw materials imported by Industry for production)
• Scenario 2 -- Let's lower Domestic Taxation and regulation to 10% and raise Import Tariffs to zero. (do remember, btw, that this eliminates the added Cost of tariffs on raw materials imported by Industry for production)

Use the brains the good Lord gave ya, this one is not that hard to think through. What's your answer??

[OrthodoxPresbyterian]

Sorry, my bad; let's clean up the HTML on this...You do realize that your "plan" is bankrupting the country. Of course, this "free trade" is not fair trade. What makes you so confident in an utter failure of a policy?

My "plan" is to seek a major reduction of domestic Taxation and regulation. (a maximum of 10% of GDP seems like a fine guideline to me; why should the State take more than God?) Precisely how would this bankrupt the nation?

I repeat my challenge:

Of the two options below, pick the scenario most likely to encourage economic growth:

• Scenario 1 -- Let's raise Domestic Taxation and regulation to 90% and raise Import Tariffs to 100%. (do remember, btw, that this doubles the Cost of raw materials imported by Industry for production)
• Scenario 2 -- Let's lower Domestic Taxation and regulation to 10% and raise Import Tariffs to zero. (do remember, btw, that this eliminates the added Cost of tariffs on raw materials imported by Industry for production)

Use the brains the good Lord gave ya, this one is not that hard to think through. What's your answer??

[Dec31,1999]

Furthermore, why is it that protectionist policies brought about a strong America, higher buying power, and less foreign intervention?

It might be because after WWII there was virtually no competition, as the economies of western Europe were in ruins, and there was no formidable competition in Asia to begin with.