Posted on 02/19/2016 6:56:22 AM PST by Kaslin
At least those of us without half our brain lost listening to the doomers/gloomers of the RNC/GOPe on radio and tv.
Bernie Sanders is wrong on trade.
Tariffs don't raise the price of American goods?
“Post war Germany was made possible by the Marshall Plan and American tax dollars ...”
... in combination with the “economic liberalism” (in the free market sense of that term) of Economics Minister Ludwig Erhard. The Japanese approach was very different, and combined industrial cartels with high tariffs.
Tariffs are not, out of hand, bad for consumers. And you don't have to figure out how much of the stove is built in the US. If the stove is built in the US there is no tariff on the stove, any imported parts are subject to a tariff when they enter the country. It's pretty simple. If that makes the stove too expensive compared to models built entirely in the US with US made components, too bad.
Keep the faith and your crossed fingers!:)
In other words, you didn’t read the thread or you didn’t understand it....
Trump’s the only one talking about trade because he’s the only one who knows any damned thing about the subject! The rest just mouth the ideologically correct lines about the need for Free Trade, and the wonderful benefits of the global economy.
bkmk
History - it's not just for books anymore.
Just as with Ann Coulter, you can add PB to clown posse lining up behind Trump. Jimmy Carter leads that crap pack.
Economic nationalism is one of those concepts American heartily approve of - in theory. When it is their own money at the cash register, “Made in the USA” suddenly becomes far less important.
In 1888, the German Emperor, Wilhelm I, died leaving the throne to his son, Friedrich III. The new monarch was already suffering from an incurable throat cancer and died after reigning for only 99 days. He was succeeded by his son, Wilhelm II, who opposed Bismarck's careful foreign policy, preferring vigorous and rapid expansion to enlarge Germany's "place in the sun".[84]
He understands it just fine. What part of that reply don’t you agree with? You want to increase prices at the expense of consumers. Since when is it conservative to increase taxes and government control of the economy, while forcing higher prices on those who can’t afford it?
I truly understand the misguided logic behind all these tariff threads. Pretty simple, if we place tariffs on imports, we can create high paying jobs here in America. Our standard of living will increase because we are paid more. The increase in our wages will more than pay for the increase in the price of goods.
It’s a variation of the “lets all get wealthy by increasing the minimum wage” argument.
Absolutely we should increase taxes on foreign businesses. And decrease them - especially the income tax - on U.S. businesses and people.
And yeah, we do want to vote to protect American industry from unfair competition from foreign countries - why be suckers?
And as for your contorted interpretation of Marx, that's hilarious. So the U.S. having customs is "marxism"?
Who knew: the U.S. were founded as a Marxist state....learn something new every day.
Like, some people are idiots spouting slogans.
Tariffs create incentives for American companies to KEEP American goods to be manufactured out of the country. This creates JOBS for the American people.
The cost of the goods doesn’t change because if the companies OUTSIDE the US have to pay the tariff fee, they are just as well off to build the product here.
The increase you speak of is NOT on a company that manufactures the goods in the US, only on those who left.
Not even close.............
Like most so-called free traders, you missed it. What do plan for all those welfare recipients once you end the programs? We have the lowest workforce participation rate now for several decades. There are nowhere near enough jobs to move the unemployed and welfare recipients to productive jobs.
This nation would be far better off financially producing most of its own goods and services and having a true, high employment rate, and several hundred billion annually less spent on poverty programs.
Oh, is that a fact?
The standard VAT rate for importing items into Germany is 19%, with certain products, for example books, newspapers and magazines, attracting VAT at the reduced rate of 7%. VAT is calculated on the value of the goods, plus the international shipping costs and insurance, plus any import duty due.
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“Tariffs are no different. Higher prices are not in the interest of the consumer.”
But unemployment, welfare, drug addiction, decaying infrastructure, dying towns, urban warzones, and low paying service jobs are?
Take a world tour. Just see the Space Age airports in China, Singapore, the Arab States, even the EU, then come home to America. You will think you landed by mistake in Soviet Russia circa 1989.
America is dying. It’s time for people to wake up before it’s too late.
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