Posted on 01/14/2016 2:42:32 PM PST by Jim Robinson
Another round of eagerly awaited GOP debates will take place live January 14 at the North Charleston Coliseum and Performing Arts Center in North Charleston, South Carolina, airing on the FOX Business Network and streaming live on FOXBusiness.com.
The first debate, scheduled for a 6 p.m. ET start will be moderated by anchors Trish Regan and Sandra Smith. Four GOP candidates will be featured, including former HP (HPQ) CEO Carly Fiorina, former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee, Kentucky Senator Rand Paul and former Pennsylvania Senator Rick Santorum.
The second debate, which is slated for a 9 p.m. ET start, will be moderated by Anchor/Managing Editor of Business News, Neil Cavuto and Anchor/Global Markets Editor Maria Bartiromo. Candidates at the podium for the later debate will be: real estate mogul Donald Trump, Texas Senator Ted Cruz, Florida Senator Marco Rubio, retired neurosurgeon Ben Carson, former Florida Governor Jeb Bush, Ohio Governor John Kasich and New Jersey Governor Chris Christie.
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Bravo on this post.
Needs to be posted multiple times on this site, as there are more and more protectionists who have no idea how the free market actually works.
Agreed. The current “debate” format doesn’t really help either. Tricky one-liners or zingers may be a special talent for some but doesn’t tell us anything about their intentions or capabilities a President, as you point out and as Obama also has amply demonstrated.
This two-hour Q&A session is just a group press conference with the MSM in charge and everyone else vying for attention. Pretty stupid setup IMO.
Thanks. We need all the help we can get.
Freedom itself is the issue even here on this supposed conservative site. Lord help us.
BTW - federal minimum wage provisions are contained in the UNCONSTITUTIONAL Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA). Employers must comply.
Higher state minimum wages are a problem but can be easily reversed by the people of the state.
The unconstitutional federal wage controls are another story but also need to be repealed.
The latest casualty - TODAY’S NEWS: Walmart. Everybody loses when the the stupid, incompetent, and unconstitutional federal government meddles with the economy and our wages and prices.
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-01-15/walmart-fire-16000-it-closes-269-stores-globally
Will we ever learn?
“Dear Mr. Cruz, it’s unconstitutional to strip citizenship from a citizen. You know that. Your proposed law is a non-starter. What we do with those who join ISIS, is try them for treason.”
Not true. Please refer to your U.S. passport, which states that you can lose your citizenship by joining a foreign army. Which is a signed document, by the way.
Please refer to the statute referred to in the passport. Don’t overlook “with the intention to relinquish US citizenship” part.
I believe in Freedom, I don’t blindly regurgitate the party line that “free” trade is a good deal. I have no issue with free trade among nations, when those nations have a general baseline between them. I don’t however believe that you give open access to your markets to third world nations who are nothing more than tin pot dictators who capitalize on slave labor to enrich themselves.
“Free Trade” as its being presented to day has nothing to do with the original constructs, whereby nations can’t even tell their consumers where their products come from without being penalized for it.
The united states missed a huge chance to lead and move the entire world forward in the 80s and 90s using trade as a leveraging chip to lift all boats, but it didn’t it sold itself out and did nothing to help those stuck in the poorest nations. All because of the perverted notion that what is being sold as “free trade” is conservative and libertarian, when it is anything but.
When you have 2 year olds chained to walls all day while their parents work 10 hour shifts at factories to make a good to be sold in another nation, you haven’t improved freedom in any damned way, and its repugnant for anyone to try to present such tyranny as liberty.
As far as America is concerned, tariffs and protectionism cause self-inflicted wounds.
As far as other counties go, like China, free trade and the market economy have brought great pressure to bring more and more freedom into their oppressive society as they see the prosperity created by the free market, in their “trade free zones” like Bejing. The free market is a great ambassador of freedom to oppressive societies.
The only losers are the special interests who together with the feds screw up the rest of the economy as we see today.
And BTW, what I have posted here you never see as any “party line.” It is basic Economics 101 which “party lines” and government policy reject to our detriment.
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Federal minimum wage provisions are contained in the UNCONSTITUTIONAL Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA). Employers must comply.
Higher state minimum wages are a problem but can be easily reversed by the people of the state.
The unconstitutional federal wage controls drive the matter and need to be repealed.
The latest casualty - TODAY’S NEWS: Walmart. Everybody loses when the the stupid, incompetent, and unconstitutional federal government meddles with the economy and our wages and prices.
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-01-15/walmart-fire-16000-it-closes-269-stores-globally
When will we ever learn?
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The voluntary (not forced) cooperation of the free market economy is THE major source of wealth creation in the world as Adam Smith pointed out in his 1776 book, The Wealth of Nations. The basic laws of economic do not change with the times. The freedom to supply what consumers demand without government or forced union interference will ALWAYS be the source of wealth creation and economic growth in America and around the world. Both theory and historical fact bear this out.
Freedom works. It is amazing how many on this supposed conservative site don’t believe in freedom, the very core of American values, the very source of her wealth and power, and the reason she is the envy of the world.
Tariffs punish the American consumer with artificially higher prices. How does that possibly help our economy?
Protectionism is exactly what dulls the competitive edge needed in the free market to make the best quality for the lowest price. In a free market, the American consumer and the economy as a whole always wins. Your protectionism allows special interests and domestic business to become fat and lazy while the rest of the world is sharpened by competitive forces. Socialism and government interference in the economy is just plain stupid.
The voters in the economy are the consumer. They vote with their dollars. In the 70’s and 80’s they voted for Japanese cars instead of stupid American cars. Why? Because Japan was hungry and had the competitive edge making products that had maximum reliability and quality for a price consumers were willing to pay. U.S car manufacturers needed to roll up their sleeves and sharpen their competitive edge but they never did and one major reason was the unions. But again, the consumers and ultimately the economy ALWAYS win in a free market whether the source is American or foreign as in this example where we, the American consumer, got to buy top quality, reliable cars for a competitive price. The free market increased our quality of life.
Meanwhile, unions and/or costly, dead-end government taxes and regulations cause American businesses to lose because their competitive edge of maximum quality for the lowest cost is dulled like the stupid, fat, and lazy American car manufacturers did and lost. But, again, the consumer won. Certain special interests, like the domestic car manufacturers, lost but consumers and the economy as a whole benefited.
We are not consumers. We are the American people.
And when 100 million of us are out of work, what happens to "consumers" is of no importance.
Until the 16th Amendment is repealed there’s NO WAY tariffs will lower income taxes.
Tariffs only promote special interests and hurt the overall economy by artificially raising prices.
Tariffs do nothing to retaliate against counties that ALREADY slap tariffs on us. Tariffs are like shooting yourself in the foot. If another country wants to shoot itself in the foot, it doesn’t mean we have to be as stupid as they are.
You probably got beat up a lot as a kid. I fell sorry for you. Did your mommy tell you not to fight back?
Marginal rates can be raised and lowered and lowered to zero if the political will is there.
I never thought of a strong US economy as a "special interest".
That is a typical elitist view. As if the yokels out in fly-over country are less than citizens. Yes, I probably know NY history more than you. Do you know why the Erie Canal was built? Do you know why people are leaving NY in droves now?
Get a clue. NY does not rule the US.
Free Traitors™ have been raping the US economy for 30 years hopefully we can push them off and pick the economy up and regain our economic footing.
Excuse me. We most certainly ARE consumers and the very important DEMAND part of economic supply and demand that creates wealth in the voluntary cooperation of the free market economy.
Quit sniveling and blaming everyone else for our problems and take ownership for what is ours. That’s what a freed people do. To be the Land of the Free, we must once again be the Home of the Brave.
Put your faith once again in God and stop putting confidence in man and his government. NUKE THE UNCONSTITUTIONAL 80% of the $4 trillion federal government, your nemesis economically, politically, and socially. We must rid ourselves of tyranny and become an independent people once again free of government tyranny.
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