Posted on 07/05/2018 12:17:55 AM PDT by Trump_vs_Evil_Witch
For decades, the Republican Party and Democrats have been largely aligned on promoting job-killing multinational free trade deals like NAFTA and KORUS, both of which aided in opening up overseas markets for multinational companies to outsource their American manufacturing jobs to countries like Mexico, leaving millions of Americans laid off in the process.
If Trump had not immediately stopped the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) free trade agreement when he took office, economists estimated that not only would the elimination of millions of American jobs have occurred, but U.S. wages would have been further depleted.
American workers have repeatedly praised Trump’s tariffs and thanked him personally for ending the promotion of multinational free trade by the U.S.
Republican lawmakers are sticking to their globalist free trade agenda and opposing President Trump’s “America First” tariffs despite the popularity the tariffs have with GOP voters and conservatives. Trump, most recently, has put protective tariffs on imported goods and materials such as steel, aluminum, washing machines, Canadian lumber, electronics from China, and solar panels in an effort to boost American industries and protect American workers’ jobs.
In the latest Harvard/Harris Poll, 83 percent of Republican voters say they support tariffs on imported products like automobiles and electronics. Additionally, 81 percent of conservatives said they too supported tariffs, along with 61 percent of Americans living in rural communities.
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Artificially propped up industries are harmed by free trade no doubt. At least I have seen you admit that some industries LOSE jobs when retaliatory tariffs accompany and follow new tariff imposition.
Sorry to dispute that excellent piece of insanity but China becoming more able to buy our cars does not make us poorer.
Distorted trade due to government interference can hurt both because less wealth is created.
Idiocy in its highest form spews from you. You should consult a professional about the hatred.
There is a domestic market for all of those products they make. It hurts profits margins not employment. In addition the tariffs stimulate new domestic production so they INCREASE employment overall. You can at least admit that?
What Free Traitors™ want you to believe is that the supply function is static and no new domestic suppliers will EVER come on line. Despite their best efforts to the contrary brand new factories are still being built in the USA all the time. Not as many as are closed mind you, but the situation is dynamic and not static. With more domestic supply will mean pressure to reduce prices.
There have been many instances of governmental prohibition of price and wage increases. Where have you been?
Minimum wages are poor policy when the demand for labor is low, when employment levels are at a peak the minimum wage is surpassed by market determined wages so it becomes irrelevant economically.
But, like tariffs, they are politically driven.
What Free Traitors™ have done to the USA should be ridiculed and scorned. If that is the only punishment you ever receive then you should feel lucky.
You stopped making any sense. The minimum wage has nothing to do with the subject of tariffs.
I am seeing that in Chicago as well. It is encouraging that this improvement comes in the face of higher wages.
So wheat farmers should be told to go F@ck themselves? And soybean and corn growers.
When during WWII? When was a wage increase prohibition? Are you on drugs? Nixon's price/wage freeze lasted 90 days. LOL. Do you think Trump would do that? He is doing everything to increase US wages you buffoon.
Higher profits, higher employment, higher wages. Without international trade products and crops won’t be made or grown because they are unprofitable. Thus, as anyone with half a brain can see, unemployment goes UP.
Agriculture is the biggest employer of illegal and imported stoop “guest” labor. They can all go F themselves. So can you.
Of course Trump won’t I never implied he would. Look through history not just in the US and there are many examples of wage and price controls particularly in Banana Republics.
Tariffs are a way to control prices through market distortions.
No, tariffs do not increase employment in the long run
That sector and construction.
Tariffs on Mexican goods increase unemployment in Mexico which means MORE Illegals flood into the country. These things do not occur in a vacuum.
But on the flip side that tariff will simulate NEW domestic production of things we once imported and the list is very long indeed. Even a complete dolt like you can see that. A tariff is the beginning of a dynamic economic story and industrial revival. Only a completely disingenuous globalist a$$hole would try to foist a static economic modal on a dynamic situation to scare the sheeple.
I'll trade a bean field for a nice new factory any day of the week. And twice on Sunday.
Of course it does that is why the rest of the world is uniformly protectionist.
This is not a banana republic - yet.
Indeed, but it is sad the media frames this as free trade vs tariffs. Trump’s attitude on trade is far more complex. Like myself, he generally likes free trade, just not unfair trade like the US has with China. I suspect his supporters range in their position on free trade but all generally see the US has been cheated.
Of course. From Nixon to now they have sold the US down the Yellow River.
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