Posted on 08/05/2017 8:27:32 PM PDT by buckalfa
I'm so tired of hearing that self-rightious phrase.
““That’s not who we are”.
I’m so tired of hearing that self-rightious phrase.”
Especially since it attempts to speak for everyone. It’s an abuse of the power of suggestion.
“We have enough Americans to build all the factories we need...”
But “WE” weren’t building this building. It was a company that made decisions based on the current situation and most efficient cost/benefit ratio available at the time. What “we” have done is permitted ourselves, over time, to accept a situation where labor costs were so out of line with what was the actual value of the work that it was more efficient to bring in people across an ocean to do it.
This is what Trump is working hard to change and one of our biggest challenges; breaking down the controls, limitations and restrictions that make it too expensive to do business here in the US. Apple keeping a billion dollars in cash outside the US and Burger King merging with a Canadian Company are different aspects of the same big problem.
It is only logical since base coat-clear coat paint technology originated in Europe.
It is the same in paint and body shops: The imported European auto spray booths sell very well in the US
The HVLP paint spray equipment used thru-out the US was developed in Europe
True but we the people can elect a government the places import tariffs and restrictions on importing labor into the USA. Hence Trump.
Ok so Trump cant see the light and go against his prior use of that labor? What kind of small minded thinking is that? Can an ex-smoker be against smoking?
If the government did it's job and restricted immigration there wouldn't have to be a contact like that. It would happen naturally.
Ask yourself which of these two is the Conservative supply side approach and which is the liberal demand side approach.
Regarding Trump, he's always made it clear that tariffs and restrictions are a response to countries who do NOT let the free market work or take advantage of unfair trade practices.
We need to do both. They are not mutually exclusive.
So would you consider the below a conservative? Do you know where this came from?
We reaffirm our belief in the protective tariff to extend needed protection to our productive industries. We believe in protection as a national policy, with due and equal regard to all sections and to all classes. It is only by adherence to such a policy that the well being of the consumers can be safeguarded that there can be assured to American agriculture, to American labor and to American manufacturers a return to perpetrate American standards of life. A protective tariff is designed to support the high American economic level of life for the average family and to prevent a lowering to the levels of economic life prevailing in other lands.
In the history of the nation the protective tariff system has ever justified itself by restoring confidence, promoting industrial activity and employment, enormously increasing our purchasing power and bringing increased prosperity to all our people.
The last part of my previous post, again: “Regarding Trump, he’s always made it clear that tariffs and restrictions are a response to countries who do NOT let the free market work or take advantage of unfair trade practices.”
No,Trump is NOT a conservative. He’s all over the map. But on this point his protectionism is in response to bad actors and not a return to the Smoot–Hawley Tariff Act.
Oh, you are one of the idiots that thinks Smoot Hawley caused or worsened the Great Depression? That myth was dispelled long ago. It’s a globalist propaganda ruse. Go back and read contemporary history of the Great Depression, trade will not even be discussed.
Oh, you’re one of those idiots that think central planning can accurately control an economy? You may be on the wrong website. Try the Democrat Underground for more like minded people. And BTW, when you start calling names you become uninteresting to me.
If you are calling me an idiot then you are calling Washington, Madison and Jefferson idiots.
I returned your insult, and if you think any of our founding fathers wrote Smoot Hawley or were proponents of a powerful central government well......
So your post shows a woeful ignorance of history.
Not at all. Tariffs WERE used in lieu of income tax in the early days. Now we have income tax. So far you’ve backed a strong federal government, double taxation and central planning (if you admit it or not). You DO know this is a conservative site, don’t you?
When I hear that phrase, it makes me want to grab a flame-thrower.
R U kidding me? You are ignorant of history. You'd have been hanged for even mentioning an income tax to the founders. A tax on human effort and the "fruits of your own labor" would be an anathema to them and it SHOULD be an anathema to you.
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