Posted on 09/27/2015 8:42:57 PM PDT by Red Steel
No, there’s nothing there to admit. He’s not talking about clamping down on free markets. How can you stop something that doesn’t exist? He’s talking about stopping a predatory system where other nations are allowed to sell their products to us freely while we’re prohibited from doing the same with our own products. It’s really not that hard to understand.
He wants to put up laws to clamp down on business. Simple as that. He's a Marxist.
Now this is how a GOPer wins places like OH, PA, etc. As much as I like Cruz, he could never do that.
I noticed Scott Pelley would ever so carefully add a snarky, disdainful flavor to the questions he asked Trump, with the unspoken thought being “you can’t be serious. You are really running?”
“its money pouring out of the country” is laughable. Where there is a trade deficit there is a capital account surplus.
If the idea that you use tariffs and other protectionist means to protect American jobs and the American economy makes you a socialist, then all the Nation's founding Fathers were socialists.
And of course that would make Obama a conservative patriot.
In America for the first 150 years before American government turned socialist and public schools taught socialism.
The problem is the USA brings a knife to the trade war gun fight.
Free Traitor™ bile again. Can we send you back?
That's a price issue which the free market deals with easily. If the price is too high, the demand will go down which is exactly what a tariff does, except with a tariff it's our own government burdening the American consumer with artificially higher prices. It's the U.S. shooting itself in the foot in favor of domestic manufacturing special interests while the non-special-interest American consumer and small business, the heart of our economy, loses.
When will "conservatives" get that?
Calling what we have now 'Free Trade' is like calling rape sex.
Jim I would argue that none of the savings corporations realized by utilizing third world labor was passed on to the consumer. Nobody really won except the stockholders.
He, like me, is for free trade within the USA. With other countries not so much.
There’s a lot of confusion mixing up political globalization and free trade.
I hate, loathe, and despise political globalization. But that requires the blurring of our political borders, rejecting the authority of our Constitution, and forsaking our national sovereignty.
The market economy, free of government interference, does none of those things because it is the voluntary cooperation of private enterprise in the pursuit of their own best interests to find maximum profit. As long as government stays out, there’s no effect on borders, Constitutional authority, or national sovereignty. But the free market DOES prosper societies and its success puts pressure on oppressive regimes to become more open and free.
You simply seem oblivious to the predatory business practices used by most of of our trading "partners," many of which are illegal here.
The US will never have "free" trade with most of the rest of the world, especially China, Taiwan, Korea and Japan. It's time we stop pretending that we do.
We’ll have to agree to disagree then, FRiend.
Both men use/used a unique ability to surround themselves with only the finest and brightest minds, commanded, of course, by their own brilliant insight.
Trump has a proven record of accomplishment (projects, negotiations, management of YUGE companies) coupled with a devotion and respect from folks who’ve worked with him - most MANY years - towards said accomplishments.
Was President Washington being a socialist when he signed the Tariff Act of 1787?
But, in general, the protective system of our day is conservative, while the free trade system is destructive. It breaks up old nationalities and pushes the antagonism of the proletariat and the bourgeoisie to the extreme point. In a word, the free trade system hastens the social revolution. It is in this revolutionary sense alone, gentlemen, that I vote in favor of free trade.
Karl Marx
Government interfering in business = socialism, except of course when it’s not. Then suddenly it’s capitalism.
EVER founding father was a protectionist. Damn we’re a socialist country, OMG! Who knew!
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