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To: driftdiver

Oh, it’s very simple! However, the cause isn’t because the other nations got stronger, it’s because we got weaker. We decided to become a “give me” society back in the late 60s and it’s been downhill ever since.

How do you propose we’ll tax ourselves into prosperity? That’s what a call for increased tariffs fundamentally are - increasing the taxes paid by US consumers in an attempt to spur domestic prosperity.


58 posted on 10/09/2011 3:41:25 PM PDT by FromTheSidelines ("everything that deceives, also enchants" - Plato)
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To: FromTheSidelines
That’s what a call for increased tariffs fundamentally are - increasing the taxes paid by US consumers in an attempt to spur domestic prosperity.

Well well you finally got to the point. An across the board tariff of about 10% would be all that is needed to level the playing field. 10% is the comparative advantage in using dirt cheap labor from Asia. I guess if there were huge savings in using communist saves to make everything maybe it would be understandable; the selling out of your country. But we are talking pennies on the dollar, our captains of industry are cheap stateless whores.

61 posted on 10/09/2011 3:54:58 PM PDT by central_va ( I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: FromTheSidelines

“Oh, it’s very simple! However, the cause isn’t because the other nations got stronger, it’s because we got weaker. “

Exactly, because we gave it away.

“How do you propose we’ll tax ourselves into prosperity?”

wow you’re a good one. where the heck does anything I post imply I support higher taxes?? Please show me. Where do I mention tariffs?

How about not subsidizing the transfer of jobs overseas? how about reducing regulation? how about reducing taxes?


63 posted on 10/09/2011 4:01:38 PM PDT by driftdiver (I could eat it raw, but why do that when I have a fire.)
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