Posted on 07/19/2019 12:48:45 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
This guy and his CATO drone buddy Griswold can go screw their globalist selves.
The idea is to drive China out of our trade space completely. If they don’t like that, move to Beijing.
The Chinese economy was a third world irrelevancy until the Bush family sold us to them in the early ‘90s. That was supposedly because they would become “more like us” and “less of a threat”. They became neither.
China has 1.3 billion people. They can trade with each other and the other East Asian countries and still have a great standard of living. They don’t need to be our factory.
Shit for brains liberal “professor” arguing against tariffs.
I wonder how much the Chinese government funneled to this retard in exchange for this nonsensical BS.
The poor, little oppressed Chinese are simply misunderstood!
Well China, toe the line and we’ll see. Byotches.
BULL SPIT!!
They are stealing your tech, but its not that bad really....
BS... Absolute BS...
That, there, is a bold-faced lie!
Not a very impressive article, bias of writer clearly demonstrated. POTUS wouldn’t be complaining so loudly about the Fed if he were not motivated by a desire to decrease the debt.
Pelosi and Schumer forced President Trump to sign for spending well above his desired budget by holding the military hostage.
China is not just taxing companies who do business in China when ripping off trade secrets. Actually China is setting up to take over each of those business’s niches by setting up shop themselves and using shoddier materials so they can undercut on pricing.
The writer ignores the espionage aspect whereby China positions themselves to hold America hostage.
“This in-kind tax is unfortunate.”
And so are Trump’s tariffs.
You would say that, BOUDREAUX, if it was your sweat they were stealing..................
“The direct harm that these tariffs inflict on us Americans”
Income tax rates could be reduced to compensate for the tariffs.
Would any Democrat care to talk about the “harm”?
I used to work for a guy back in the 90’s who had invested thousands and thousands of dollars into developing what then was a new idea of ‘wireless stereo speakers’. This was before Bluetooth and wifi came along.
I helped in the technical aspects, and built some of his prototypes.
He contracted with a Chinese company to build the things and they basically stole his designs.................
The THEFT is NOT "overblown.
We are under no obligation to let the IP theft continue.
The tariffs are short term and well worth the price.
Trump is simply trying to deal with the concerns raised by American intellectual property owners.
Communist “requests” for “sharing” tend not to be well-received by hard-working Americans.
The Chinese do not believe in property rights.
They steal equipment then reverse engineer it and stamp their “company” name on it. The companies are all owned/run by the communist government.
They are thieves and should be treated as such.
“First, the extent of such theft is overblown.”
In other words, Trump’s request to stop the Chinese IP “tax” is a modest one.
Hmmmm ... It’s NOT “THEFT”, it’s “IN-KIND TAXATION”. Let’s not give John Roberts any ideas. ;-)
1) The IP theft allows China to do more than just make copycat goods to sell to their inner market. It also allows them to make copycat goods to sell to the rest of the world. So China's IP theft takes away much of our export market, not just the exports to China.
2) China not only does IP theft by strong-arming American co's to turn over blueprints to sell within China. They also are the world's worst perpetrator of cybertheft. They still our intellectual property digitally.
3) China also steals a lot of IP through classic espionage efforts in a more James Bond style. They have Chinese workers work for American engineering firms and research universities, sending the stuff we make back home.
4) China also requires their tech companies to report anything they "discover" to their Communist Party owners. One of the reasons China heavily subsidizes their "national champion" (hint, not Clemson or Alabama football teams) companies is so they can compete against other companies and be in place to get our data. This is why Trump is banning Huawei.
5) Never let anyone tell you Asians are smarter than Americans. Maybe the few who come here, we probably see their brightest. But think about it. China has probably 4 or 5 times the population of the U.S., yet with all that brain power they can't even invent their own stuff? I mean, really?
It’s the way they have done business for a thousand years.................
His economic argument is valid, however he’s turning a blind eye to the actual theft that is occuring (routers that phone home all your data to China, for example).
This feels like a shill piece.
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