Perry’s grown jobs and businesses in the State of Texas - and that’s been 40% of ALL jobs created in the US in the last 3 years. His position is clearly the right one for America - rather than throwing around slogans and words, he’s actually grown the job market and fostered the creation and growth of small business.
Maybe you should look at the results of the candidate - what they’ve done - rather than just what they preach?
The solution isn't to tax our own citizens for purchasing imported goods (which is what a tariff really is - it doesn't tax the manufacturer of the imported product - it taxes the person who imported or buys the imported product) - it's to make our own business environment competitive.
We have the highest corporate income tax in the world. We have the highest regulatory environment in the world. We have a Government trying to dictate where our own businesses can expand (see NLRB versus Boeing). We have a Government that has broken the rights of business owners (bond holders and shareholders) in favor of unions.
Our Government is the problem; the solution is to take trade away from it, and give it back to the players and the market. Get Government out of trying to manage trade - because it's clearly not doing anything correct right now.
Again, perfectly said.
On FR there is a contingent of leftover protectionist Republicans who do not recognize that we can't turn back the clock to when the world wasn't connected and globalized. Many of these types fear competition, think isolationism can work again, do not understand that it is government undermining much of our ability to compete and don't get how much unions (indeed just the threat of unionization) has contributed to destroying manufacturing and industry in the US.
They are a small minority, but these folks are your former Perot voters, were attracted to Trump's idiotic blather, and the same types that are bitter someone like Thad McCotter can't and won't catch on.