Posted on 04/17/2023 6:02:00 PM PDT by DoodleBob
...The Heritage Foundation — a conservative think tank known for its pro-business allegiances — released a report Tuesday written by Alexander Salter, an economist at Texas Tech University, flirting with whether the US government should protect workers from free markets.
Conservatives have long argued that the government should not tax, regulate, or subsidize industry because consumers are better off when companies are forced to compete for their dollars. However, the consequences of globalization for American manufacturing have caused many conservatives to reconsider the need for government intervention. Heritage, once the center of free-market conservatism, is now at this very crossroads.
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Where markets generate wealth but harm families, communities, and the nation, "Combating monopolies, redistributing income, and even guiding production in essential industries are all valid public policy options," the report said.
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Donald Trump took the White House in 2016 railing against the consequences of free-market policies.
"Globalization has made the financial elite who donate to politicians very wealthy. But it has left millions of our workers with nothing but poverty and heartache," he said in a 2016 campaign speech.
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The Reaganite fusion of free markets, social traditionalism, and anti-communism "is fundamentally dead," Geoff Kabaservice, vice president of political studies at the market-oriented think tank Niskanen Center, told Insider. "Ronald Reagan in 2023 might have seen his philosophy as pointing in different directions as the needs of the country are different now," he said.
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Heritage's president, Kevin Roberts, took over in 2021 and has aligned the think tank much more with the New Right, which is home to figures like Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis who wield state power in the name of culture war... causing a lot of turnover in the organization.
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What is your point?
Unions are what have driven the socialist communist mindset in this country. More money for less work. Including welfare, money for no work.
Unions still exist and they still have a privileged mindset with their asinine rules.
Most important is their legacy. Everyone thinks socialist thanks to their victories over the century.
Minimum wage should be eliminated. It is a matter of freedom vs. price control - another socialist piece of garbage. And if we got rid of MW, then a large part of that illegal alien problem would dry up.
They can offer but that doesn’t mean it will be accepted. They’ll have to change.
Why do you think we have such huge illegal alien problem? Small business trying to get labor under the table for less than that damn socialist price-control minimum wage.
It's not mob rule, it's single party state rule that the Demagogues want. They use local turmoil (incitement of riots, astroturf, deliveries of skids of bricks, ballot fraud, Stalin-style show trials, getting people fired for expressing their opinions, etc) to get and consolidate power. They will not tolerate continued free-lance rioting by BLM or Antifa. That will result in roundups, more show trials, purges, and disappearances.
“Business Insider”
“Kevin Roberts, took over in 2021”
Tells you all you need to know.
Another business targeted for termination.
Nothing wrong with Tariffs, we generally pay them to get into foreign markets. I’m not opposed to reciprocal trade agreements, that is the very definition of fair and free markets. Can’t buy land in China? Fair enough, Chinese can’t buy land in America. Seize intellectual property and tooling? Fair enough, we seize the equivalent. Charge American 10% to access your markets? Fair enough, we will do the same.
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