“By using the presidency to tell Ford they are a loser?”
No. By convincing Ford to help Make America Great Again. Is there a downside to Ford building the plant here in America instead of Mexico?? If so what is it?
--Ford Profits $1.9 Billion in Second Quarter of 2015
No, I can’t see a downside.
Is there a downside to prioritizing the rolling back of taxes, regulations, and making America more competitive and attractive that way, and actually INCENTIVIZING businesses to keep production within our borders?
I’m not saying Trump doesn’t believe in that or doesn’t want to do that. I’m just saying it seems to me that should be the first priority of any conservative Republican.
You’re never going to stop other countries from manipulating their currency if they choose to do so. Or at least it would be a rather difficult process to achieve.
But in terms of convincing, what’s the downside to having a reasoned policy in which you sit down with people, you can sit down with policy wonks, you can sit down with CEO’s, and you can discuss what the greatest challenges and the greatest obstacles to keeping businesses and jobs here in America? Kind of a “Why are you outsourcing your business overseas and how can we make keeping it here in America more appealing to you?”
Now I think a lot of us know the answer to that. Currency manipulation by other countries, I’m not ruling that out. But a lot of it comes down to our own government policies making it more attractive to look overseas with or without currency manipulation by other nations.
I’m just of the mindset of get government out of the way, get back to making America the most business friendly, enterprising encouraging nation on the face of the earth, and THEN shake your fist at anyone who that isn’t good enough for- although I again would prefer to keep government out of it as much as possible altogether.
Off the top of my head....
If by government intervention/manipulation