[nathanbedford]

I would certainly prefer Donald Trump to pick winners and losers instead of the likes of Barack Obama who will exploit TPP to implement radical leftist domestic policies many of which have little to do with trade or economics. But let us not kid ourselves, if Donald Trump is making these choices it will still be an elitist imposing his values on us except that Donald Trump will tell us that his values are "smarter."

There is no indication that he will come to the people with data and inform the electorate.

[Jim Robinson]

We’re going to pay the tax. Whether it’s in the form of tariffs or welfare checks for the unemployed, we’re going to pay it. But there’s a lot more damage done to society if it’s welfare checks vs paychecks.

On the other hand, they’re not raising the tax, they’re raising the national debt. But there will be a day of reckoning on that bubble.

[BaldJohn]

"There is no indication that he will come to the people with data and inform the electorate." I can not give you data, but I have been around 70 years and know that before NAFTA and all the rest of these trade deals a man could leave high school and find a job that would pay him enough to keep a family with out his wife working. Now a man has to have a college degree and his wife work to have a middle class life. NAFTA was not sold as a way to get cheap stuff at Walmart, but was supposed to help the working man get higher wages. How did that workout? In addition, how is it better for us to have our medicines made in a communist country or all of our computers and communications equipment? Trump might not be able to accomplish everything he says but I believe he will give it a real try. The rest especially Cruz will not even try. BaldJohn