Posted on 05/05/2016 9:30:43 AM PDT by reaganaut1
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Trump promises a return to tariffs. He also promises a wall with Mexico, penalties against profitable American companies, skimming foreign remittances, and more. Trump does not mince words, and you have to respect his forthrightness. What each of these solutions has in common is a heavy-handed government that imposes its will at the price of consumer freedom.
What right does a White House staffer have to tell you what you can buy and the extra price you have to pay if you choose the wrong product? Your freedom to trade to buy what you want is whats at stake when anti-traders get rolling. They say its about protecting producers, but that is not how trade barriers work. Hugo Chavez and Joseph Stalin put up huge trade barriers and guess how many jobs that helped Venezuela and the Soviets create? Ni odnogo, as they say in Russian. Not a single one.
Yesterday, I asked Michael Boskin, former chief economist under President Bush in the early 1990s and the godfather of lowered trade barriers in North America, how he feels when NAFTA is used by politicians as the scapegoat for economic anxiety. He reminded me that faith in free trade waxes and wanes. The failure of tariffs is a constant in history, one that each generation demands to relearn. He asked: Remember the Corn Laws in 19th-century Britain? Remember the trade barriers among the states after the 1776 revolution that inspired our free-trade Constitution in 1789? The American Revolution in 1776 was inspired by the British Tea Act of 1773. It was the ultimate trade war: for freedom and against tariffs. How many young Sanders or Trump voters realize that?
(Excerpt) Read more at nationalreview.com ...
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So says the voice of the NWO .
Yeah, it was. It was a deal designed to screw Americans.
What each of these solutions has in common is a heavy-handed government that imposes its will at the price of consumer freedom.
Because what we have now is a liberal paradise?
Trump2016!
Said without a scintilla of irony or self-awareness whatsoever. ;)
hey, NR, you’re as welcome around here as salon and vox.
Go @#$#@$ yourselves.
Oh, and by the way, your company is headed towards bankruptcy over the next few years.
Good move getting rid of all your readers. Good business plan.
Such a condescending self righteous sounding title even. Gosh i despise these people.
It is time that the USA stop taking it in the shorts. It is time to stop taxing our business and industry out of existence. It is time we had trade parity with the rest of the world. It is time......
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Free trade will open markets for American goods!
Sure, we’ll sell a couple more bulldozers and jets. Millions of jobs will be offshored, but those weren’t great jobs to begin with, here, wear this green apron and call yourself a barista, it’s a much better job.
Once again, the framers of the constitution are proved economic geniuses. Federal funding through tariffs was the way to go, and gosh, not enough money to do x? Maybe that’s also because you’re not authorized to do x, so why do you need funds to do that?
Time Kane can go suck a big fat ......
There is no known case for “free trade” under conditions where both capital and population are internationally mobile.
Not that NAFTA is free trade to begin with, but there’s the biggest fallacy of this debate.
If capital and population are mobile, “free trade” is a race to the bottom - and we have overwhelming evidence from our post-NAFTA experience that this is the case.
Call it a “Jonah,” in this case. I do. ;)
I stick by my tagline.
The National Review is right NAFTA was a HORRIFIC deal not a bad deal.
More globalist garbage from the National PU
Among other disastrous results for America, NAFTA indirectly helped get Bill Clinton elected to the Presidency.
BS
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