I saw his rant on the tube the other night, as always, Trump proves he’s not the smartest on economics. He may be a good salesman, for which he has amassed a fortune, but economics is not his strong point.
Many here will agree with him, there are plenty of isolationists on these boards, who think that imposing high taxes on imported goods will force folks to buy American.
Indeed, they might. It will also folks to go broke faster than any inflation might. Right now I know many folks who are surviving because of Wal-mart. They can’t afford union made products.
And what happens once the unions are given a monopoly on products you must buy? Will the quality of those products increase? Hell no. They will be back to building cars like they did in the late 70’s and early 80’s. Will the prices go down? Hell no, they will raise the prices of their products to fund the liabilities they currently cannot afford.
As it stands, unions are sinking because of these liabilities, they would LOVE to have the US tax to death imports, so they could double their prices. And then, after that, they’ll double them again so they can make more promises to union members.
If they want to decrease our trade deficit, get rid of the harnesses on our own business that China does not have. Get rid of the prowling lawyers that make doing business here expensive as hell, get rid of the EPA, get rid of the tons of regulations and lower our own taxes on American made goods. How about that?
Trump appeals to the lowest common denominator amongst New Yorkers, while the rest of us in heartland are sick of being the experiment of the week for their goofy, failed several times already-projects.
Like it or not, we are in a global economy, and to compete on this global economy, we must either insist that other countries hamstring their business the way we are hamnstrug, with regulation, inane costs of doing business, and eco-terrorists from within our capital, OR we must diminish those same factors to the level of our competition.
But it won’t happen, because there are too many who think America is too powerful, and they do their best to bring us down a few pegs. Unfortunately, our POTUS and those in power right now are the ones thinking that way. They have a UN attitude, and believe all the worlds problems will just be solved if we play with one hand tied behind our backs for a few years. Screw them, because wanting America to be “taken down a few pegs” would have been considered treasonous when I was growing up, and in my mind, it still is.
Trump could be Obama’s “Ross Perot”. He runs as a third party independent, syphons off enough Republican votes and Obama dances right back into the White House in 2012.