Posted on 02/15/2017 6:08:44 AM PST by whodathunkit
The evolving foreign policy of Donald Trump is an unintended reincarnation of Ayn Rand. When he says “America First,” he is effectively saying that the United States should act in what Rand would call its “rational self-interest.” Young Americans for Freedom (YAF) was founded forty-one years before the 9/11 attack on America, that is, on September 11, 1960 at the Buckley estate, Great Elm. Its founding document ended: “That American foreign policy must be judged by this criterion: does it serve the just interests of the United States?” Not the United Nations or the Third World, but only the U.S. and, where interests meet, our allies.
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Yuge Ping!
“That American foreign policy must be judged by this criterion: does it serve the just interests of the United States?”
Real-life Atlas Shrugged with a better protagonist and a better ending.
Who is Donald Galt?
Life requires gaining and keeping values. Selfishness is concern for one's own interests and is prolife because it is concerned with gaining and keeping values. Altruism is antilife because it is the sacrifice of values.
: ) Good one. This real-life story is much better than the book and Don White House Galt faces enemies of all of us.
WOOOHOOOO President Trump! Keep battling the antagonists, creeps, conmen, collectivists, criminals, Clintons, deceivers, dirtbags, miscreants, Marxists, progressives, politicians, punks, socialists, scumbags, tyrants, totalitarians.
Finally, some “representation”...and from a citizen with a remarkable history of good citizenship.
Thank you, sir.
Bump.
It’s Trump against the media, the gop(on soros’ payroll) ,the democrats(owned by Soros) the CIA the NSA the FBI etc.
Only Trump is not owned and for America first
I think you're correct.
Too bad Ayn didn’t think that way concerning economic policy. She was a Free Trader.
A good essay on Rand and Trump.
USA = Galt’s Gulch?
FRee Trade or Fair Trade?
I think Rand would be a “Fair Trader” were she alive today.
Consider:
The USA has been screwed (and screwing itself) in respect of trade ever since WW II! Because, the USA is the only major country in the world that has no border adjustable tax (VAT or GST)!
So, our trading “partners” export their goods FRee of taxes (border adjustable taxes are REBATED at their border) and are imported into the USA with no or minimal USA import duty.
And, USA goods are exported FRom the USA carrying the ENTIRE BURDEN of taxes imposed by the EVIL USA income tax, which is, of course, NOT BORDER ADJUSTABLE!
Adding insult to injury, importing countries add their VAT to the USA import, causing USA goods in EVERY ONE OF OUR major trading “partners” marketplace to carry the burden of TWO federal taxes (USA and importing country VAT/GST) while foreign goods sold in the USA carry the burden of NO (or VERY minimal) federal taxes!
The absence of a border adjustable tax is causing US manufacturing goods to be overpriced, relative to their foreign competitors, at home and abroad!
At a MINIMUM, one would expect USA import duties to be exactly equal to the rebated VAT/GST FRom our respective trading “partner,” would one not? To AT A MINIMUM, level the playing field in the USA.
Actually, there is a VERY good solution to this dilemma we find ourselves in - the FairTax – HR 25 and S 18.
IMHO, FairTax WILL solve the FRee/Fair Trade issue VERY nicely!
FairTax levels the playing field both at home and abroad: FairTax imposes NO tax on businesses, so under the FairTax, USA exports will compete on price, quality and availability overseas and at home, because the FairTax would ALSO be levied on imported goods at the point of sale.
This is a long post, but the BS we have been hearing come out of Washington, DC about “border taxes” is just that!
FairTax IS the answer!
We need your help in order to replace the income tax with the FairTax and abolish the IRS.
The USA will NEVER be a FRee country so long as we have an income tax and an IRS!
To find out more about the FairTax, go to https://www.fairtax.org.
I keep thinking...lowering tax rates, repatriating dollars, reducing regulation costs, border adjustability, increase manufacturing base ...
It’s the nrst. When will he announce it ?!
In terms of the rest of the world, it's as close as it gets on a large scale for all individuals. Mi casa es Galt's Gulch. Free Republic is Galt's Gulch. When you get outside of those places, your dealing with too many irrational thinkers (non-thinkers and swirling emotions) on a daily basis. Watch and WATCH OUT! (It's a challenge...but fun...navigating through life, encountering and avoiding those who have no regard for it or you). There are lots of pleasant, kind, rational, fabulous individuals in this world. Life goes on.
MAGA - Make America Galt (GRRRRRREAT) Again
A tariff on imports is what is needed. At some point all the other BS will have been tried and a tariff will finally be enacted. I hope it is not too late.
foreign countries will still tax america’s products, but the fairtax is the way to go...
push it now.
end the irs.
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Well, yes, they will.
HST, at least US products, post-FairTax, will arrive on foreign shores FRee of US taxes!
Thank you for supporting the FairTax!
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