Posted on 05/10/2013 3:33:32 AM PDT by lowbridge
As a general rule, corporations should be able to build plants where they want, whether it’s in America or elsewhere. Moreover, if they choose to go overseas, we should be asking, “Why is that?” Are our corporate taxes too high? Do we have too many regulations? Is there something else that we can do as a nation to be more business-friendly, to keep building plants here in America, so that we can employ more people and rake in more taxes?
However, it’s a little different with a company like General Motors.
Taxpayers lost more than 10 billion bailing out GM because Obama thinks it’s fine for his corporate allies to embrace capitalism on the way up and socialism on the way down. Now, GM’s taking some of that money that it pilfered from us and it’s building a plant in China with it.
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Ronald Reagan thanks you.
Reagan, Sowell, and Friedman hate America too. (there’s a reason Reagan kept Buchanan the hell out of econ issues)
Xie means thanks.....Very good.
Or the bareout went overseas.
The same Reagan the put import quotas on cars, for one. It saved the big three from extinction. Thank you Gipper.
If you read Forbes, you will learn in every issue that there are tons of young entrapraneurs developing new businesses and products. They put the lie to your cult.
Business is alive, well and thriving among those with the wisdom to look forward rather than backward in their rut.
The world is much larger than your county
Reagan was committed to free trade, but not above using some rough and tumble trade policies from time to time. That’s exactly how we all feel.
If low or no import tariffs and off shoring were to “improve” things domestically by “forcing” big government to back down on regulations and taxes THEN IT HAS FAILED MISERABLY. We tried that for 30 years and we have to admit defeat in this area and take a different tack. Put raw greed aside and think about your country. YOU CAN MAKE IT HERE AND MAKE A PROFIT. Be happy with that.
More over, if ALL regulations and taxes were eliminated domestically the off shoring would continue unabated. The lust for slave labor trumps all sense of patriotism,history, national security and ethics.
"Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results."
Your statemenst are so fatuous it’s astounding. First, there have been some amazing economic years in the past 30. Besides, there were other things going on during that time outside of trade policy. And no, things haven’t been purely tried for 30 years . But to sit there and say that nothing’s happened good in 30 years and that it is all the fault of trade policy is simply the blind ramblings of a cultist.
Are you 14 years old or off the meds?
As for the last 30 years. We(USA) created the tech revolution. But Free Traders gave away everything to the turd world. Manufacturing of chips, production and the supply chain. No pc's are made here, no flat screens are made here, I could go on and on. None of that bothers you in the least.
So being pro American industry makes one a cultist?
Your argument is so weak that you have to constatnly do two things: FIRST, you have to assume that I don’t care about the destructive part of the creative destructive economic realty. Second, you have to connet dots that don’t connect. And third, you say (WE) when (WE) didn’t do anything - privatre people and private businesses did it.
And being in favor of free trade does not mean I am going to think every single decision by every single company involved in trade is a good one. That’s a straw argument.
Ok, lets hear where you think free trade agreements and of shoring has hurt the USA. Waiting....
You accused me of hating the USA or being anti-USA , or some such nonsense. I was demonstrating your absurdity....and you were being absurd indeed. If I am anti American due to my beliefs in liberty and free trade, then so is Reagan. Your indictment was so hateful and fatuos that it deserved a rapid fire demolition.
Good job iop, you drew return fire immediately. You are over the target.
——None of that bothers you in the least.——
Of course not. The manufacturing has been subcontracted to keep costs down and sales and profits up.
You always fail to put the events in proper order. Making money is the reason to be in business. The business of business is business, not sociology.
There is no requirement for maintaining the commodity of noncompetitive domestic labor.
You love your country like Jodi Arias loved Travis Alexander.
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