Free Trade Isn't Killing Jobs

Foundation for Economic Educcation ^ | October 16, 2017 | Pierre Lemieux

[CodeToad]

The quality issue is just another result of racing to the economic bottom. Cheaper is rarely best.

Before you know it, we’re all living in mud huts, but, by God, the cheapest mud huts that can be made!

[Alberta's Child]

Our economy is built on people buying a lot of crap they don’t need.

[arrogantsob]

What have you bought (or even seen) that was identified as being made in North Korea? Nothing.

[arrogantsob]

Crackpot economics produces such conclusions and could not be more wrong.

[Alberta's Child]

What would we be building?

[arrogantsob]

Total BS. No one here supported Trump sooner than I and I support him more today. Trump was not speaking of getting rid of Free Trade but of the biased agreements getting rid of the obstacles to Free Trade.

Government-managed trade pacts are about as far from Free Trade as one can get.

[Alberta's Child]

1. How does the U.S. sell a $32.50 toaster in countries where workers earn a dollar or two an hour at best?

2. How does the U.S. sell a $32.50 toaster in countries where they already make toasters so cheap that they can ship them here and sell them for $30.00?

[arrogantsob]

You are joking? If we don’t allow imports what countries will allow our exports?

These actions do not take place in a vacuum.

[Buckeye McFrog]

Free Traders would not agree that it’s wrong to sell lampshades made in a Nazi death camp as long as the Jews were paid $0.50 a day. That is a scurrilous lie, and I think you know that.

Some of the stuff your buddies the ChiComs are sending here was reportedly made by slave labor in North Korea.

[arrogantsob]

The financial and productive companies in Japan are more unified and intertwined than here.

[central_va]

Factories, lots and lots of factories.

[ZULU]

Free trade is great.

But we don’t have free trade with currency manipulators, fascist states which subsidize businesses, and agreements which intrude into our sovereignty and constitutional rights. We have a globalist elitist state with no borders and an oligarchic international plutocracy ruling the planet.

[central_va]

Creative destruction is good inside the USA. Americans can move to a new state where a new factory has been constructed. Once off shored there is no job.

[central_va]

A free Trader is not loyal to a nation, they are loyal to the business they work for above their Nation.

If you want socialism that is how you get socialism.

[central_va]

You have it backwards. Keeping factories in the USA with ostensibly “expensive” labor hastens automation. Off shoring so an army of gooks make product manually does not.

[central_va]

Tariffs Free Trade deals were huge political plums enriching some, bankruptcy for others.

Fixed.

[central_va]

The founding fathers were well aware of Adam Smiths fairly tales. They rejected Smith. Thank God they did. Because the nation they built behind a protectionist wall was awesome.

[Alberta's Child]

We’re already doing that. I think you’re delusional if you believe we have the kind of demand here in this country that can support 20% more manufacturing capacity for American-made products at U.S. prices.

[central_va]

Taxation of “trade” is effectively no different than taxation of income

Horse poop. Tariffs are an optional consumption tax on goods imported from overseas. An income tax is an evil tax on your life's blood and sweat. They are as different as night and day.

[DesertRhino]

I’m not buddies with the chicoms you nut. I want them kept out.