Posted on 01/09/2016 7:23:10 PM PST by BlackFemaleArmyColonel
It's a good thing Trump wants to rebuild our manufacturing base, because it truly has taken a hit. We've turned from a nation of builders to burger flippers.
To put in perspective just how bad things have gotten - there were more Americans employed in manufacturing in the months leading up to Pearl Harbor than there are today, despite the fact that the population then was a fraction of what it is today.
In that time, there was 1 person employed in manufacturing for every 10.6 people in the overall population compared to 1 person employed in government for every 26.1 people in the overall population.
Oh how things have changed. As CNS News reported:
Those employed by government in the United States in August of this year outnumbered those employed in the manufacturing sector by almost 1.8 to 1, according to data published by the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
There were 21,995,000 employed by federal, state and local government in the United States in August, according to BLS. By contrast, there were only 12,329,000 employed in the manufacturing sector.
The 2015 Federal budget spends an unprecedented $3.7 trillion which leaves us with a deficit of over half a trillion dollars.
Trump's plan to restore the manufacturing base consists of placing tariffs on Chinese goods and reducing our relatively high corporate tax rate which incentivizes businesses to set up overseas.
There's a huge opportunity to kill two birds with one stone here. Shrink the government, and when people ask where those former government employees are going to work we'll have some nice manufacturing jobs waiting for them.
(Excerpt) Read more at allenbwest.com ...
Let me ask you, if you're for unregulated markets, does that extend to the labor market?
Also, as this source of revenue went up, other taxation could then decrease.
Or,
Operation Trump Force Trauma 2016
Which is nice for the manufacturers but I'm still paying more for my TV.
Keep in mind that the pre income tax Federal government was all funded from tariffs too. Somehow that didn’t push a whole land into poverty.
That was long before Social Security and Medicare and $600 billion dollar defense budgets and all the rest.
You like cheap China stuff bad enough, go to China and live there and use it. OK?
I like living here, thanks anyway.
Maybe it won't.
Let me ask you, if you're for unregulated markets, does that extend to the labor market?
In most cases. And since you're not for unregulated markets does that include labor markets?
But your taxes will be less just from a static tariff offset, as well as there now being a new source of other taxes (the new employees).
So in the end you win.
Raising my taxes in one area and maybe lowering them in another doesn't mean I'm coming out ahead.
If this happens, it’ll be interesting to observe how former government employees will adapt to manufacturing jobs. They might have to get off their assess and actually do some work. It’ll be a culture shock for ‘em.
I worked for local government for several years. I’d come home at night and have a meltdown after dealing with people who spent more time and effort to get out of working than they’d have done by just working.
Markets should be biased unless we want to define ourselves as economic doormat. Case by case exceptions can be negotiated forever under a trust-but-verify regime. And nobody proposes putting a lid on voluntary charity. But none of this enforced naked to our rival stuff.
You come out ahead by getting people off welfare.
You come out ahead by getting YOUR CLOSEST NEIGHBORS off welfare.
I never said I wasn't. How nice for you to assume. Have a great day!
Or my income taxes might remain the same and the tariff will be added. Or my income taxes might go down but not enough to offset the increase I pay due to tariffs. Who knows what might happen?
So in the end you win.
Or not.
How does that make me ahead?
The most popular politicians, except for the parasite class panderers, keep on offering ways to cut the taxes.
And if you bring more workers home... voila! Less parasite class.
My closest neighbors are farmers.
How does having a welfare slum near you affect you not.
Hmmm (scratches head)
And if they were, are they farmers clear to the horizon of those who can travel to you and give you trouble?
I don't have one. Besides I thought the point of this article was turning all those government workers into factory workers, not welfare slum dwellers.
You might as well be a ShortsightedDawg.
Losing a work ethic means something indelible while the loss is going on.
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