“But think, for a moment, about what raising tariffs on these countries’ goods would mean for the average American,”
Eventually, people need to realize the cheap ride is not good. Free trade has done nothing but put Americans out of work and line the pockets of multinationals as they pocket the difference.
I’ll buy and sell freely.
Who, by name, is so wise and good that they should supplant my judgement with their own on penalty of taxation for the leviathan state?
Meanwhile, mandatory minimun wages are making overseas manufacturing more attractive. This writer applauds all the cheap crap we buy, and minimizes the lost domestic manufacturing sector, and writes it off as due to ‘more efficient methods’.
Education on the issue is sorely lacking.
Under Statement of the year!!
We live in a Country today that is built entirely upon CREDIT and Credit Money. All Federal Reserve Notes and Credits were LOANED in to society with Interest Attached. This in and of itself requires a Mathematical THEFT OF VALUE(inflation) on an Ever Increasing Basis just to stay even. ANd if you want Growth, the math grows exponentially. There is NO Way out of an Economy built entirely on CREDIT.
We need these Trade Deals to help MASK the Real effects of a Pure Fiat Currency using fractional reserve banking. Otherwise the whole thing would have collapsed a long time ago.
It doesn’t take thousands of pages of semi-secret documents to create a free trade agreement, if the agreement is actually creating free trade.
In other words, free trade is a wonderful idea. What we’re getting in these “free trade” agreements is something else, entirely.
The U.S. did great for over 180 years with high import tariffs. Our founding fathers viewed them as a tax on foreigners wanting to sell into our markets.
We pay for cheap imports multiple times. Once when we buy the import. When we pay extra taxes to support the unemployed Americans. When we pay extra taxes because those unemployed Americans aren’t paying their share of taxes anymore. And when we pay extra taxes because we had to borrow money from China because of the unemployed Americans and are now paying interest.
“Trade benefits America.”
‘Knowledge is good.’ Faber College motto
Town Hall has completely lost it. It is the HuffPo of the right.
We know trade benefits America, but it must be fair trade!
Retrain them as what? This is the question they don't answer. John Stossel was on Laura Ingraham's show this morning and he uttered the standard "retrain them" line, but didn't offer any ideas about what occupations will still exist tomorrow.
Is the author the same woman that was nominated to be Secretary of Labor and had to drop out because she had an illegal alien nanny or maid? I suppose that benefited America too.
Yes dimwit, trade benefits America ...FAIR TRADE. Not the $hit you’ve been falling for as fair or free.
I like how they couldn’t find any American workers to get a picture of for the article about how much we benefit from Chinese workers.
In general international trade is good. But I’m almost certain that a 5,500 page secret trade bill negotiated by the most anti-american and anti-free-market president in history has little to do with free trade. I’m also certain it contains all sorts of grenades that will be hurting Americans for years to come.
Just one of the grenades—the TPP makes all the stupid side agreements by Obama about the environment enforceable as a matter of law. The next president can’t just come in and undo them. So he can sign whatever he wants in the Paris Climate Accord. TPP makes it US law. TPP also requires that the US not “weaken” its environmental laws for economic reasons.
And Linda Chavez does bot present a single shred of evidence to support her assertion. I am amazed she gets paid to write such garbage. When I was in high school I would have gotten a D if I handed this paper in to an assignment of write a pro/con on free trade.