[Jim W N]

I like Trump and I’m rooting for him, but I can’t disagree that Trump’s call for tariffs fail to attack the direct causes of our economic problems.

Get rid of the DIRECT CAUSES of our economic malaise from the federal government and our economy will soon be humming regardless of the Chinese, the Japanese, the Mexicans, or the Man in the Moon.

- Get rid of MINIMUM WAGE, the DIRECT CAUSE of artificially forced higher costs and prices and incentives for businesses to move elsewhere. The new higher minimum wage is accomplishing this result already.

- Get rid of federal protection of UNIONS which are DIRECT CAUSES of higher costs and prices, lower quality, non-competitive products, and incentives for businesses to move elsewhere. Unions put Detroit out of business.

- Get rid of tons of dead-end, non-productive FEDERAL REGULATIONS, a huge DIRECT CAUSE of higher costs and incentives for businesses to move elsewhere. Anybody in business will tell you that.

- Lower ALL taxes at a flat rate to abolish the 75,000 page tax code and IRS power.

All of the above is because of federal government’s unconstitutional and destructive interference in the economy as a direct cause of lower productivity, competitiveness, and manufacturing moving elsewhere.

[SunLakesJeff]

Wow. I would add Repeal of the 17th Amendment. Good luck actually adopting legislative Term Limits, however.
Stay blessed.

[octex]

Unions put Detroit out of business.
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Just as unions caused an end to the steel industry in the US.

[Smokin' Joe]

Get rid of Obamacare. It never was health CARE. It is supposedly health INSURANCE, but the only enduring qualities I see there are Mandates and penalties/taxes/fees for breathing, aside from a redistribution of wealth.

Since the doctors aren't making more off it, the money is going elsewhere--and not to health.

I know of a few businesses who simply quit hiring people and quit expanding--during an oil boom--because of the O care mandates.