Truth, Justice, and the American Way.
Posted on 01/28/2016 5:12:03 PM PST by Kaslin
Everybody needs to put on their long pants and understand that tariffs are taxes in American consumers and not good policy for limited government types.
Truth, Justice, and the American Way.
Put your big girl pants on and stand up.
Stand up Chuck?
Yea, protective tariffs worked so well just before the Great Depression.
The idea that tariffs are always bad is a truly tragic error that “everyone” believes. Tariffs did not cause the Great Depression, and today is NOT 1930 in any event.
(GD was more likely caused by global financial power attempting to force the exchange rates back to pre-WWI levels through radical deflation. This was a British and American banking maneuver.)
In 2016 tariffs to help jump-start American manufacturing are as necessary as building the WALL. Both of these areas MUST be reversed to SAVE AMERICA.
I realize not everyone will agree, but to me the preeminent issue of our day is nationalism, the new conservatism.
bkmk
Raising taxes is almost never necessary.
Money from American consumers going into the hands of the federal government. That’s the bottom line. No thanks, Donald.
Many people here at FR can not wrap their heads around the fact that tariffs are direct transfers from consumers to the federal treasury. I don’t get it.
i also heard him i think last night or the night before give an accurate accounting of why college tuition is thru the roof.
Jeff Sessions To Debate Moderators: You Must Ask Candidates About Whether They Support Obamatrade
Breitbart ^ | 1/28/2016 | MATTHEW BOYLE
Posted on 1/28/2016, 5:36:22 PM by BlackFemaleArmyCaptain
Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL), the chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee’s subcommittee on Immigration and the National Interest, is calling on Fox News debate moderators Megyn Kelly, Bret Baier and Chris Wallace to ask the GOP presidential candidates where they stand on Obamatrade.
“It absolutely is a critical issue for the future of America,” Sessions told Breitbart News in an exclusive phone interview late last week.
This is no little matter that needs to be decided in some secret room and secret negotiations. I don’t see how anybody that conducts a debate can fail to ask about this critical issue. It affects the long-term financial well-being of this country. People need to know how every one of these candidates, Republican and Democrat, feel about the trade agreements—and particularly the Trans Pacific Partnership and the Transatlantic agreement and the Trade in Services Agreement. Are you for them or not? Then they [voters] can decide how to cast their vote. Isn’t that what debates are supposed to be about? To give the candidates a chance to explain how they feel and how they are going to conduct themselves if elected? I think it’s a huge matter.
Sessions noted the reason why these trade agreements should be a major focus of this final debate before the Iowa caucuses is because of the impact this issue will have on American workers and American sovereignty moving forward.
“This trade agreement would provide—this Trans Pacific agreement commission for example would provide—the Sultan of Brunei with the same vote as the President of the United States,” Sessions said.
The President could go and agree to the various things he might want to see happen like President Obama would agree to expanded immigration and Congress would be powerless to stop it.
(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3389997/posts
Exports were 4% of the GDP in 1930. A drop in the bucket.
Tariff discussions really bring out the income tax loving Free Traitors™.
The entire Chinese manufacturing "miracle" was a contrived economic plan executed via massive government collusion and interference. China going from a basket case resembling a huge North Korea to what appears to be a modern country almost overnight happened via US government intervention in collusion with the Chinese Communist government in order to rig the international manufacturing markets. The whole thing is fake and phony from the fake Chinese stock market, ghost cities, a currency that is pegged to the dollar, to the technology WE GAVE THEM.
The reason for this collusion was to forward the concept of a "New World Order" but in reality it was done to make China a real player on our side of the Cold War and to make the USSR face a real threat from an industrialized China. Well as it turned out the USSR collapsed under its own weight and what was a seemingly endless cold war did in fact end and all of the China industrial transfer policy became unnecessary but we were stuck with it and it sucks.
Part of the Trump "Nationalist" appeal is that the current trade situation we find ourselves in is very humiliating to the patriot. Seeing jobs and wealth bleed off to a Communist country and watching the GOPer's, that call themselves Conservative who are in reality just Establishment gloBULList Corporate hacks and paid off Free Traders, do absolutely nothing is nothing short of depressing. GOP sees nothing wrong with the status quo, that is not Conservative and its a big problem.
Tariffs are not mandatory, they are voluntary. Income taxes are mandatory, with failure to pay up under penalty of imprisonment. I prefer the former LIKE EVERY OTHER FOUNDING FATHER DID.
I would much rather be hired in a manufacturing company and earn a middle class salary, and pay 30-40% more for American made goods, than be collecting food stamps & government checks and shop for cheap Chinese stuff at Walmart.
They wouldn't be 30 - 40% more. The only difference is labor and labor is a very small part of manufacturing production costs. Maybe 5% more for domestic AT MOST. Better quality too. Chinese crap is junk.
They know, they just don’t care.
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