Posted on 11/13/2016 6:32:49 AM PST by central_va
In the 1895 “History of the Republican Party,” the authors declare, “the Republican Party … is the party of protection … that carries the banner of protection proudly.” Under protectionist policies from 1865 to 1900, U.S. debt was cut by two-thirds. Customs duties provided 58 percent of revenue. Save for President Cleveland’s 2 percent tax, which was declared unconstitutional, there was no income tax. Commodity prices fell 58 percent. Real wages, despite a doubling of the population, rose 53 percent. Growth in GDP averaged over 4 percent a year. Industrial production rose almost 5 percent a year.
The Republican Party must return to its protectionist roots and STOP THE DE INDUSTRIALIZATION of the USA caused by off shoring.
Automation: Yes automation means it takes fewer worker to produce the same amount of product. AS LONG AS THE FACTORY IS IN THE USA THEN THAT WOULD BE A GOOD THING. Protectionists are not Luddites.
“FREE TRADE” is NOT so “FREE” as it pretends to be
What we have is INVERTED LANGUAGE...
We only have free trade between the States.
We. do not have it with NAFTA, GATT, China, etc... That’s nothing but rigged trade deals sold under the lie of “free trade”.
The Republican Party must purge itself of Free Traitors™. The Bush NWO era is dead. Let’s make sure we advertise that heavily.
At the inception of our Republic. It was trade tariffs that funded our federal and State governments. There were no income taxes., social security or Medicaid.
It would be nice if could get back to this in a Trump Administration.
Agree 100%
Limbaugh are you listening? The anti trade agreement protectionist won the day. Get on board or go out of business. I’ve turn you off. If you continue your residence on the NWO globalist plantation then I am permanently done with you.
Globalism is dead. Americanism is on the rise.
Trump needs to separate himself from the NWO and Bushbots. Mr. Trump do this in your inaugural speech. hammer this home!
“The Great Betrayal” was a formative book for me. Virtually everything PJB, as Nostradamus, forecast, turned true. Sane trade policy turned the USA into a colossus. Self interested trade policy has turned China into a new colossus. “We are the world” trade policy took Britain from SuperPower to just another EU member, crestfallen.
Free Traitors&153 and the NWO crowd need to form their own fringe kook party.
Pat B.
If there is something not available in the U.S. Then that is an opportunity for a patriot.
Amen!
Agree 100%
>> opportunity
Sorry, that’s a Bush word. Let’s just say opening.
I wish I could help write Trump’s inaugural speech. I would rub this victory in the faces of all the dinosaur Bushbot NWO Free Traitors™ that temporarily infest the GOP.
The problem with today's manufacturing sector is essentially the same: The aging capital stock in the US has not been replaced. After WWII, the Japanese and German capital stock was bombed into oblivion. We helped them rebuild. The result: Both countries replaced their factories with totally new technology while the US was using the same plants that existed in the 1890's, especially in steel and other primary inputs.
What Trump needs to do is give US manufacturing an incentive to modernize US manufacturing plants here rather than in other countries. Tariffs and quotas could play a part, but that's "pushing on a string": It relies on foreign manufacturers to accrue the benefit. Trump would get a faster and more direct impact if he lowers taxes on manufacturers who stay in the US, plus some form of tax credit for new investment.
So you are only half right.
Well whatever he says I am sure it will not be disappointing.
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