TARIFFS NOW: Bring Back American Jobs

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[Cringing Negativism Network]

Just a friendly reminder: Americans increasingly don't make things. Any things!

Another friendly reminder: Americans increasingly only buy things.

A sad reminder: Every single thing we buy, is made elsewhere...

[Yo-Yo]

Smoot–Hawley II NOW!
[Great Depression II later...}

[Cringing Negativism Network]

Back then, we were the world’s largest exporter.

That’s why Smoot-Hawley turned out the way it did.

And it sure ain’t the case now.

[jboot]

Exactly. When we are all slaves, than we won't have to worry about jobs anymore.

Until and against that day, some industries deserve protection. When the last steelmaker goes away, we will need to buy our steel from our future adversaries. When the last chipmaker goes away (and that day is coming almost any moment) all of our weapons systems and military IT systems will have Chinese chipsets at their cores.

It is time for us to stop sacrificing our future on the altar of Free Trade.

[philman_36]

A friend of mine who brags of buying all his tools from Harbor Freight...
Why would anyone brag about that?!

...is always asking to borrow mine...I wonder why? ;-)
He wants your pie! His tastes like "..it".

[ALPAPilot]

This is how a country goes broke.

The country goes broke by ssessing confiscatory taxes - taking the wealth of Americans away - and flushing it down the unproductive bureaucratic toilet. Manufacturing leaves because the government makes it too expensive to manufacture here. If you believe we can tax our way to prosperity, your on the wrong website.

I am unwilling to cede one more iota of my liberty to the government. I will do business with those I choose. A liberal - a person who is congenitally unable to keep his nose out of other people's business. If the shoe fits.

[Egon]

Tariffs are a tool for leveling the playing field in international trade, but they aren't the only tool, and they certainly aren't the first tool that should be employed.

A better tool is removing the myriad of taxes and regulations that hinder businesses (and individuals) and keep them from being competitive.

Only after this tool has been implemented should tariffs be employed.

[JohnnyM]

Milton Friedman will bring you back to the light

[T-Bird45]

Both of you assume the next war will be staged a la WW2 with America as "The Arsenal of Democracy, Part 2." Unlikely, IMO - the next war will be a "run what ya brung" affair so the onus is to maintain constant readiness rather than a surge capacity. While a Venn diagram would certainly show an overlap of economics and national defense, the larger part of the national defense discussion is about political will and the proper level of spending to ensure America's defense.

[central_va]

"run what ya brung"

So our enemies know that; if the keep building replacement ships and tanks they will ultimately win. Glad you are not the President.

Ridiculous, you free traders can never address national security issues, because you CAN'T.

[jboot]

"Both of you assume the next war will be staged a la WW2 with America as "The Arsenal of Democracy, Part 2"

And you assume that the next war will be staged tomorrow. I do not. America would win any war it entered tomorrow, no one is arguing that. I am concerned about the war ten years from now, or twenty, or thirty. When our weapons are either hopelessly obsolete or are purchased from others because we can no longer produce our own. We will surely lose that war.

[jboot]

"Why would anyone brag about that?!"

Because he saves money. Never mind that he is basically buying disposable tools. His last purchase was a $49 compressed air fluid extractor. It worked fine but slowly when it was hand-pumped, but it literally exploded when he hooked it up to his air compressor. As far as I could tell he followed the instructions to the letter. The tool just wasn't built well enough to take its own normal operating pressure.

[screaminsunshine]

It serves the purpose of Globalism. There are Globalists in both parties who do not have American interest at heart but consider themselves citizens of the new world order. You can find the movers and shakers in the CFR and the Bilderburg group. Their names are online in the membership lists. I keep the lists handy if I am watching the News and check them against the “experts” that show up spouting opinions.

[bill1952]

The country goes broke by ssessing confiscatory taxes - taking the wealth of Americans away - and flushing it down the unproductive bureaucratic toilet.
Manufacturing leaves because the government makes it too expensive to manufacture here.

If you believe we can tax our way to prosperity, your on the wrong website.

Hear, hear! - Although I would add that he is on the wrong planet

[mac_truck]

America would win any war it entered tomorrow, no one is arguing that. I am concerned about the war ten years from now, or twenty, or thirty. When our weapons are either hopelessly obsolete or are purchased from others because we can no longer produce our own. We will surely lose that war.

Concurring bump.

One need look no further than the Chinese hold on rare-earth metals, and their recently demonstrated willingness to shut down supply to the rest of the world for political reasons, for an example.

[jboot]

Thank you.

It's simple, really. Domestic industrial capacity = National security. Lose one, lose the other.

[philman_36]

Because he saves money.
Buy cheap, get cheap. That's all I've got to say about that.

[KevinDavis]

No industry deserves protection.. Hooray for Capitalism..

[jboot]

"No industry deserves protection.. Hooray for Capitalism Slavery"

There, fixed it for you. If we stay this course, your grandchildren will be slaves. If they live at all.

[Vendome]

Thanks! Since my little discovery I am really looking for things made in the USA. I had before but now it just kind of a mission.

A great place to find Made in the USA are the dollar stores.

They sell name brand and generic brand items that you would find in a regular store and of course it’s a buck.

[anglian]

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