[1rudeboy]

What a crock. The "Great Society"-folks created a permanent underclass, and you think that if they worked dirty, smelly jobs they wouldn't riot? LOL

Btw, your argument is from the pages of Marx. He thought "free trade" would leas to social unrest.

[ConservativeMind]

Excise taxes are what this country largely existed on until the early 1900s.

Our country declined during those years, didn’t it?

[Bryanw92]

>>What a crock. The “Great Society”-folks created a permanent underclass, and you think that if they worked dirty, smelly jobs they wouldn’t riot? LOL
>>Btw, your argument is from the pages of Marx. He thought “free trade” would leas to social unrest.

Again, I’m not in favor of ENDING trade, fair or otherwise. Neither is Trump. But we have to be smart and holistic in our approach to trade in this age of easy communication and fast transoceanic shipping. From a pure “trade” point of view, there is no reason for any American to have a job. We could outsource almost all work and bring in cheap foreigners for everything else.

But, we have a country to maintain here, and a nation is PEOPLE. My argument is from more than Marx, but your ad hominem suggestion that I am Marxist is typical of those who believe that a nation is nothing but an economy. My argument is also from the beliefs of Christianity. (No, I’m not saying Jesus is a socialist, so don’t bother going there.)