If you really have posted your ideas would you link to them?
Or, better yet, just repost them like you do everything else (except your policy proscriptions).
Don’t repost all of them, just list your top 3. OK? Then I’ll eat crow.
OK fair enough.
Gotta work though. Will respond this evening.
OK thanks. Now I’m ready to answer your challenge. Here’s my top three ideas for an American industrial resurgence:
1) Our trade policy with countries, should be reciprocal on a country-by-country basis. That is to say, if a country like China is badly taking advantage of America’s trade openness (which they are), we should not be so open toward their products. We should charge tariffs on their exports. The more their trade surplus is with us, the larger the tariffs should be.
Country by country. So if Canada is importing things to America but not taking advantage of us, maybe it should be completely free and open. But if Mexico is running a large trade surplus with us, then we should enact large tariffs on Mexico - the larger the trade imbalance, the larger the tariffs.
That is my number one idea. Deal with countries individually. And be aggressive with tariffs. That would bring back American production, and tariffs themselves would also bring in badly needed revenue. So that is my biggest idea. American needs to be aggressive with tariffs to support a return of our own companies.
2) While we are enacting real reciprocal trade policies and bringing back industry and production to America for the first time in over one entire generation, we badly need to reform our taxes and regulations. Big time. The thing is I do NOT WANT THIS to be something that becomes a factor is stalling the adoption of a much more aggressive American trade policy. I am for doing the two at the same time, but I put the first one first, because it needs to happen. Now.
But our business taxation is far too large. Nearly confiscatory. America needs to make it affordable to make things right here again.
That also means we need to tear down a huge amount of regulations which are just oppressive. America has (FAR) too many laws governing how companies must do everything. It is something which politicians need to be strongly opposed on, and we need to strongly stand up for freedom. Freedom to make things, without the government getting into every operation. Leave businesses alone. Let them do what they want to do. Let them make things again. More freedom, for individual Americans. Freedom.
3) Finally I think America should be far more about Americans. We shouldn’t keep importing cheap workers. We should be far more discerning about who we let come here, and we should in fact build a wall. From coast to coast.
This is not to say we shouldn’t allow immigration. Immigration should be allowed. But it should be LEGAL immigration. This is a policy which several of the candidates are advocating, but the strongest two I know of are Donald Trump, and Ted Cruz.
So those are my big-3.
Use tariffs to bring back American industry.
Aggressively bring down our tax rates (here, for American).
And build a real wall. Coast to coast.
OK back to you.