Claiming that both Trump and Sanders are ignorant in economics represents specious reasoning. Here we have Sanders, a chronic life time failure, basically a crackpot compared to a hugely successful businessman, Donald Trump. There is something wrong with this equation!
It looks like yet another hit piece on Trump.
I believe that someone like Trump with a demonstrated record of successfully applying common sense and business sense to make the best of things. Can he not do that repeatedly with our trade imbalance? He would be much better at it than Hillary, with her lack of nongovernment experience and record of corrupt cronyism, Bernie the crackpot, or anyone else on the scene, do you not agree?
NR’s basic lie is that what we have NOW is free trade. What we have now is mercantilism—precisely what Adam Smith attacked. Except the mercantilists are the Chinese, the Mexicans, etc., and the Uniparty elite.
Trump is the ONLY candidate who does not want to dismantle and end the United States, and replace it with a North America without borders, populated by Muslim and Mexican rapists and murderers, a Third World hellhole.
Cruz is a Bush sock-puppet.
It’s National Review. OF COURSE it’s another hitpiece on Trump.
I’ll give Trump credit where it’s due, but Trump’s businesses have nothing to do with manufacturing and trade ... which means he’s not subject to the same competitive realities that a company like Ford or Apple or IBM faces. He has made a career in luxury residential buildings in Manhattan, golf courses, and casinos. There’s nothing wrong with that, but in the one instance where he even indirectly got involved in a business of selling consumer products — namely, branding his own clothing line — it’s noteworthy that his name was all over foreign-made merchandise.
All you had to look at is where it was posted to see that it’s another Trump hit piece.
Trump is simply for fair free trade—as well as lowered taxes and reduced counterproductive regulation.
The big-government economiist (while claiming he’s not a big government economist) would disagree with Trump’s repeal of Obamacare for a private-market solution—AND he would expand the EITC.
“Claiming that both Trump and Sanders are ignorant in economics represents specious reasoning. “
Agreed.
But for the sake of argument, let’s say they are both economically ignorant. Now, what about the teams each candidate would assemble to assist him in figuring it out? Would the author care to speculate on who would assemble the better team? After all, the president is ot in there alone.
Howdy-Doody trade policy invites corruption.
If we don’t negotiate tooth-and-nail to cut other countries’ tariffs and to keep US manufacturing from moving overseas, we flag in foreign lobbyists to bring in walking around money to bribe our elected officials.
Such as ...
The Clintons
Hillary’s emails reveal that they’ve been cutting the same kind of sleezy deals [even with terrorists] that were documented by the book, “Year of the Rat” [Chinagate] during Bill Clinton’s administration.