Bunk.
This is the globalist establishment, raising a fake issue.
Bigtime fake.
Trump was not entirely wrong when he called NAFTA a disaster, but the reality is that cross-border trade between the U.S. and Canada has rarely been a problem for the U.S. The real problem with NAFTA is that you have a corrupt Third World dump among the three trading partners.
“More U.S. workers would have to be retrained, which may not be practical in the short-term. “
So, by all means, let’s take the “short-term” view.
“More U.S. workers would have to be retrained, which may not be practical in the short-term. “
So, by all means, let’s take the “short-term” view.
The big government types really don't understand that corporations do not pay taxes - they are passed on to consumers.
More tariffs and less income taxes.
"domestic manufacturers have limited capability to produce steel of certain strengths, thickness and flexibility"
The No-Wall Street Urinal is a globalist propaganda engine. They love cheap immigrant labor, no tariffs and just plain don’t give a rats ass about Main Street America. They can stuff it.
Wrong on this. Steel isn’t a consumer item but a national defense necessity. The article admits we can’t even make some of the stuff now.
Time to bring thise capabilities home, before we find out the hard way how much we need them. Both Washington and Hamilton knew this.
And it’s worse to kill American jobs and manufacturing by allowing subsidized or protectionist products into our country. That cost is greater.
I don’t buy establishment economic theory. It is premised on globalism and not on sovereign nation states.
Republicans ARE in the business of rebuilding America, not the NAFTA hogs who have taken our jobs.
For anyone who remembers what America accomplished in the Second World War, this article is bullcrap. We CAN and WILL be capable again of building ANYTHING we need in our country without having to appeal to some other country for help. The GLOBALIST want the US to have to be subordinate in many of the businesses in which we were once the leader and often the inventor. I am sick of this America CAN’T attitude that is NOT part of my mental process. I am a lifelong believer in AMERICA CAN and it’s high time the CAN DO mentality returned here.
Whatever tariffs are needed to buy a little time to let us catch up once the regulations imposed by Obama and others are lifted (being done by the Trump Adm. at this minute) should be approved by the citizens as well as the government. Level the playing field with tariffs and we WILL catch up and become the leader again. America has been bled dry by the idea that if it is CHEAPER it is better. I believe you get what you pay for! Building back OUR economy is worth a few pennies from me. In the long run, competition will take over the pricing.
bfl
Tariffs are the one constitutional power (unamended) that the federal government has to raise money, and up until the last century they were how the Federal Government was funded.
This tariffs are inherently evil is just dogmatic nonsense from the same people who brought you the idiotic “free” trade agreements that let despotic regimes extort our wealth.
This tired old free trade is inherently good in all ways dogma is dead, and these nonsense folks trying to keep pushing it are morons.
I see how it has suddenly depressed steel stocks in America, NOT!
Americans need jobs not globalist bs like your selling.
Fair trade or tariffs, Trump gets it as do most who voted for him.
I don’t believe much that comes out of the globalist, cheap labor express WSJ. That being said, our ability to make all kinds of our own steel is not just economics, it is a strategic issue also. If it costs a bit more it is worth it.