In addition, even where you can argue that foreign products are better there's a limit: you can't trade to the point where your domestic industry is destroyed and your people impoverished to the point they elect (or impose) a socialist government. Political economy count here as well.
Internally, I agree with you wholeheartedly.
If that imbecile Nixon had kept us on the gold standard, 40 years of trade deficits would have been impossible.
I'm certainly not impressed with
showy typography in lieu of reason.
We gotta cut though a bunch of junk here. A good starting point is the fact that although the free market economy isn’t perfect, it is way ahead of whatever is in second place. It is the focus on the relatively small portion of freedom and the free market that isn’t perfect that ends up screwing up the large portion that works very well, better by far than anything else.
Next, it is important to see from history right up to the present that government interference in the economy, except for certain defense purposes, always does more harm than good, tariffs included. Tariffs are a form of shooting yourself in the foot. The absurdity of trade wars with tariffs is one country shots itself in the foot and the other country, wanting “fairness”, shoots themselves in the foot. The result is needlessly, consumers “equally” lose and suffer from their own government-forced lowered standard of living.
What’s the real point here? The real point is that to solve a problem, you FIRST of all have to ID the root cause of the problem. Next, you have to launch a DIRECT ATTACK on the root cause.
What is the root cause of businesses fleeing America? Answer: THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT’s interference with the market and pursuit of unfriendly business policies driving up costs and prices.
What is the solution?
- Abolish the unconstitutional federal minimum wage
- Abolish unconstitutional federal regulations
- Abolish unconstitutional federal union protection
- Abolish federal corporate taxes which is a hidden form of higher individual taxes
Tariffs are palliative, not a cure, and only appear to be a solution when in fact, like most government programs, it only makes matters worse. Equal and “fair” stupidity is no answer. And freedom is always a superior course than government-forced “fairness”.
The things listed above, getting government OUT of the market economy, are the REAL solutions that attack the REAL root causes of businesses fleeing America.