Great line. These days it means paying higher import taxes so underachievers won't have to work as hard. Years ago it meant--
--American Nazis keeping us from stopping Hitler.
Posted on 12/27/2010 5:04:46 PM PST by Kaslin
At first blush, the mercantilists' call for "free trade but fair trade" sounds reasonable.
After all, who can be against fairness? Giving the idea just a bit of thought suggests that fairness as a guide for public policy lays the groundwork for tyranny.
You say, "Williams, I've never heard anything so farfetched! Explain yourself."
Think about the First Amendment to our Constitution that reads:
"Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances."
When Fairness Trumps Freedom
How many of us would prefer that the Founders had written the First Amendment so as to focus on fairness rather than freedom and instead wrote:
"Congress shall make no unfair laws respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the fair exercise thereof; or abridging the fairness of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people to peaceably assemble in a fair fashion, and to fairly petition the government for a redress of grievances"?
How supportive would you be to a person who argued that he was for free religion but fair religion, or he was for free speech but fair speech?
(Excerpt) Read more at investors.com ...
No one knows what “fair trade” means. It’s entirely in the eye of the beholder.
title says it all.
America first. Allies Second. Adversaries last. Jobs belong here at home.
We live in a free country and are ready to fight for freedom, but even mere discussions about over fairness and having a fair country are pointless.
The Civil War started because the North opposed free trade. Supporting streamlined free trade (lower tariffs and regulations) will lift our domestic economy and alleviate social ills such as illegal immigration.
Article I, Section 8:
“The Congress shall have Power To lay and collect Taxes, Duties, Imposts and Excises, to pay the Debts and provide for the common Defence and general Welfare of the United States; but all Duties, Imposts and Excises shall be uniform throughout the United States;...”
Article I, Section 9:
“...No tax or duty shall be laid on articles exported from any state...”
Article I, Section 8:
“The Congress shall have Power To...To regulate Commerce with foreign Nations,...”
Great line. These days it means paying higher import taxes so underachievers won't have to work as hard. Years ago it meant--
--American Nazis keeping us from stopping Hitler.
“Supporting streamlined free trade (lower tariffs and regulations) will lift our domestic economy and alleviate social ills such as illegal immigration.”
So how’s that working out, actually?
I keep hearing these promises from “free trade” advocates. It has been 15+ years and I have yet to see any of the promised results.
When shall we expect these wonderful and glorious results of “free trade?”
The Tariff Act of 1789, the first national source of revenue for the newly formed United States.
FreeTrade™ it's a religion.
Considering what France and the UK have done with their American given freedom it appears to have been a mistake saving them. They would arguably both be better off today speaking German.
And if you haven't seen it, it doesn't exist. Let's raise taxes on ourselves now!
The current absurd trade relationship between USA (see also: chumps) and China (see also: war by other means) is stupid.
China is conducting a trade war, and winning.
America is surrendering, squishy, and spineless.
Where, is the America of old? What ever happened, to our great nation?
“FreeTrade™ it’s a religion.”
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More like a cult.
Jim Jones, and his band of kook-aid drinkers, got nothing on those who wish to send every remaining American job to other nations.
“Free Trade” - it’s the new kool-aid.
How much more should Dr. Williams have paid for his Lexus in order to get you to stop whining about China?
When you run the numbers these corps only save few pennys on the dollar when they use slave labor. Now if the corps fired all of their USA employees and used Chinese for all the accounting marketing etc. Then we would really save money! The MBA’s wouldn’t have any of that...
Where they made? Here or in Japan?
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