Posted on 01/26/2017 8:21:23 PM PST by TBP
Edited on 01/27/2017 9:12:03 AM PST by Jim Robinson. [history]
President Donald J. Trump didn't wait long to act on one of his signature campaign promises, announcing just moments after being sworn in as the country's 45th president that the U.S. intends to withdraw from the Trans-Pacific Partnership and that he will renegotiate the North American Free Trade Agreement "to give American workers a fair deal."
We haven’t moved toward anything yet. Why not wait to see what actually comes of all the rhetoric before making that judgment?
The competing entities in the USA have a common cultural and political center which assures relative fairness in trade. What cdntral referee do you suppose the ‘free-trade’ globalists would propose on a global scale? Is that something you really want?
Bm
I buy American as much as possible, even if it costs a little more. If I can’t buy American, then I buy from any country but China.
I buy American as much as possible, even if it costs a little more. If I can’t buy American, then I buy from any country but China.
Oh, well. If "studies" have concluded....
The only justification for the government to intervene in trade is to protect against fraud. E.g., using diethylene glycol as a sweetener in toothpaste (cheaper than glycerin, but poisonous). Being a more fit competitor is not fraudulent.
Exactly, we averaged well north of 3% GDP growth in the decades before our trade deficit went haywire in the late 90s.
Bingo!
Oh they get it alright. They just like being able to sell things in the US without having to deal with the "overhead" of making those things in the US.
Pretty sweet deal for those who can get it.
That is a bogus argument, and you know it.
The "whole world" does not reside within our borders, is not subject to our laws and regulations, is not subject to our taxing structures.
Nations have borders, and nations have national economies. International trade is negotiated between to separate and different economies, two separate and different nations.
All the better! Some laws and regulations may be superior to other laws and regulations. Free trade means, I, as a consumer, get to choose which are best!
Nations have borders, and nations have national economies. International trade is negotiated between to separate and different economies, two separate and different nations.
States have borders, and states have state-wide economies. Interstate trade is required to be free by the Constitution, no steenkin' negotiation required.
Texas's laws and regulations may be superior to those of Marxichusetts, for example. That may mean my neighbor's job will be lost to a Texas company. But I don't care. To me, it just means more cheap stuff is available. Which is a Good Thing.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GmNN2MCJ-7U&t=16m10s
Japan? Sheesh!
Subject to our Customs laws and regulations. And if you are bringing in or importing "stuff" above the commercial thresholds, then the "stuff" becomes subject to our laws and rules of international commerce.
States have borders, and states have state-wide economies. Interstate trade is required to be free by the Constitution, no steenkin' negotiation required.
That particular inter-state trade thingee was negotiated during the Constitutional Convention.
This is the USA. If you want to be a global citizen, just hitch a ride to Kenya with the outgoing "global citizen" and the wookie.
Forbes - the NYT/WaPo of business entities...
Yes but we will have jobs to earn the money to pay the slightly higher prices. Perhaps with more paying taxes other costs will go down like interest on the debt.
People that think in slogans don't actually think. Your statement is total bunk which I debunked just yesterday in the thread for the last ridiculous pro free traitor article.
Yeah sure, those huge trade deficits are a huge help!
If you call yourself a Conservative please stop doing so. A classic Conservative and a pre WWII Republican was all about protectionism.
Conservatism without nationalism is not conservative.
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