Posted on 12/04/2014 10:28:07 AM PST by central_va
He should have listened to Ross Perot.
So was George Washington and James Madison, both protectionists, communist in your stupid brainwashed opinion? LOL. You ignorant fool.
PS: Unions suck, but they have been defeated. Your fighting the last war. Manufacturing is done by non union workers over 90% of the time.
No. As a small business owner, tariffs hurt me more than sales and income taxes combined. Because the products we need are no longer made in the USA (thanks to decades of overregulation) and we have no choice but to have them made offshore.
Sales taxes are paid by the customer. Income taxes...well, right now, on what income? The nominal rate is way too high, but income tax is usually avoidable for a long time by reinvesting in and growing the business.
You are a socialist, comrade.
Four marriages? I call that the triumph of hope over experience.
Oddly enough, I said nothing of the sort.
What I did say way that I object to the use of government force to impose social or economic outcomes. Telling me about your objective doesn't change the fact that I a priori object to the government intervention in the first place.
Simple minded you call that? I find the view that big government is good when it happens to line up with your personal values far more simplistic.
Raising tariffs isn't by itself going to produce any magical resurgence in US manufacturing - it's just going to kill off a huge number of import-dependent small- and medium-sized businesses in exchange for the minimal benefit of giving statists a little more money to spend on social welfare schemes - for a year or two.
The correct answer is an 80% reduction in the size of the Federal Government and the sunsetting of 80% of all Federal laws on the books. This should be the opposition party's #1 agenda...if we had an opposition party.
Were Washington and Madison socialists?
Amazing how many “conservatives” on Free Republic love income taxes. LOL...
Yes, but I'd only use tariffs as a political weapon - if country X places a tariff on our goods, we place an equivalent tariff on theirs, as a tactic to get both tariffs eliminated, not as a long-term source of trade protection or revenue.
Eliminating corporate income taxes will do far more to improve American economic activity than tariffs ever could, even if they worked the way you think they'd would. (Historically, however, tariffs as trade protection lead more to stagnation than to development, as that safety net becomes a hammock.)
But again, the key point here is that the best prescription is to lessen government involvement in the long run.
Please note the only countries that don’t tariff our exports to them are Singapore and Canada(for the most part).
Washington, Madison and Jefferson would disagree. The safety net would be unnecessary IF WE HAD NOT OFF SHORED MOST OF OUR MANUFACTURING BASE.
OK, I see that you are simply a troll who likes to make, assertions that are not supported by the text of anyone’s posts. Troll away...it’s childish, but it can’t hurt us. :)
They also devised a governmental system that would work under moral men. As we no longer have that, we must deviate from some of their thinking.
Free traders must come to terms that the gloBULL views is in direct opposition to the founding of the USA.
Divorced once — You made a mistake
Divorced twice — You have bad luck
Divorced three times — You are either foolishly stupid or have no respect of the institution of marriage as a religious ceremony.
Speaking of ignorance, George Washington and James Madison were essentially rebels, unloyal to Britain.
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