Protectionism, is the conservative pro American position.
Pick your side.
So, the Federal Government saying "If you buy a car from Company X, you pay no tax, but if you buy a car from Company Y, you pay a 35% tax" is conservative?? I'm gonna go with no.
Up is down. Black is white. Cats and dogs are living together. Taxes are conservative.
I support the idea of free trade, but I no longer believe that is what we have either here or overseas.
Therefore I have come full circle back to protectionism. I agree that may become the conservative position, but too many still believe a lie. What we have is NOT free trade. What we have is not capitalism. It’s all a rigged game to benefit the few at the expense of many.
The world seems upside down to me and the response to the housing bubble was the event that opened my eyes. The banks and government created the crisis and then bailed themselves out with trillions of dollars we borrowed from a private bank! Government is in collusion with the banksters pulling the strings and that is not capitalism or free trade.