Posted on 01/25/2017 8:52:08 PM PST by TBP
So since I was born & bred in Manhattan, perhaps I should post about ALL of the movies and T.V. shows that have been filmed in/purport to be all about NYC; including the other 4 boroughs too?
NO ? Then how about where I live now? Or, how about Chicago, since I lived there for many years too?
Oh please...don't add Pat to the mix! You've already dug quite a mighty big hole, as it it; stop digging!
No, it was Smith. Ricardo built on it and took it farther.
Did you mean to direct your comment to someone else? It’s not clear.
Trump’s policies are not free trade policies.
And THAT has exactly WHAT to do with the actual effects that NAFTA had on this nation, and/or the UTOPIAN, NON-EXISTENT thing called “free trade” ?
Exactly. Thank you.
Paul Craig Roberts has also written about how Bush brought down the Twin Towers, so there’s that.
No, it’s libertarian or Austrian.
>Watch what the US and the UK work out bilaterally with Trump and May in the near future. That will be as close to free trade as we are likely ever to get.
Free trade between 2 nations with very similar economies who don’t run a large trade deficit works very well. Any trade where you have a large trade imbalance only enriches the nation doing the larger share of the exporting while the importing nation because poorer and poorer.
So tell us, JUST WHERE DOES FREE TRADE, REAL FREE TRADE EXIST, IN THIS WORLD?
I was answering your first question in your post. Please don’t get all hot-headed latina with me.
And of course, once again, 90 million able bodied people out of work is not a calamitous policy outcome.
Screw these jackasses!
“... TPP would cause a loss in manufacturing jobs but a gain in ‘service’ jobs ...”
-
Which one creates more value?
Making stuff and selling it, or buying stuff from someone else and selling it?
I think it's shallow boilerplate. Free trade is good because free trade is good, blah blah blah.
Except by their definition, free trade means that the US has applied no barriers for others. Whether others have applied barriers for our imports seems to be irrelevant.
I LOVE how you ignored my post, which did indeed address the argument that the FEE made.
No such thing as “Free” trade. We ship goods into countries who tax the livin hell out of them making them expensive there, while they ship into our country basically tax free.
Big dif between “FREE” and “FAIR” trade. Trump is NOT against fair trade. He is against free trade where it is a one way street.
So the queston is..what are their arguements on that fact? Are they for undercutting our goods going out and being taxed by foriegn countries while we take goods from those countries tarrif free? How does this benefit our manufacturing here in the USA?
Well, considering that the only CONSTITUTIONAL way for the fedgov to STEAL money is from tariffs, perhaps Trump is on to something
Anywhere there's an underground economy, or a "black market," if you will. Basically, I'm saying that there is "free trade" in Somalia.
Do you think protectionism will make that better?
You are attempting to reduce to absurdity. There is no possibility of truly free trade nor do we have it now. What we have is stupid trade with smarter trading partners.
You have obviously not had much experience making trades or you would understand the dance better. Trump will posture & huff & puff and so will our trading partners. When the dust settles. if Trump is as good as his record suggests, we will again have deals only America will have a equal or better position instead of being raped repeatedly.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.