Oh Yeah. Isn’t the first and won’t be the last. I have my asbestos suit on that has had much use lately. The breastplate of Righteousness and the shield of Faith very handy also.
Thanks. :)
BTW, I don’t think Trump is a loon. I think he’s a smart guy and means well, but he’s really of on this one as are SO MANY Americans and many here on FR, a supposedly conservative site. Man, what does it take to get remedial Econ 101 and 102 out there to these folks?
First of all, capitalism and taxes are at the crux of economics. Capitalism is wealth creation in the private sector whereby the government takes some of that wealth, in taxes, to pay for necessary services. (If you are following)... Only the private sector creates wealth.
Here is the pay off: you must have businesses,including manufacturing, to not only create middle class jobs - but also to have any wealth creation to tax... a good economy and a funded government are all knitted together. Right now, You hardly have any middle class, so you have no real money to pay for government.
There are those dumb enough to think we can have a country of government employees and burger flippers and still exist. Most government employees think that we could all work for the government and tax each other to pay each others salaries. (Think about that.)
Even Wall Street only moves money around, kind of like the deck chairs on the Titanic. Fact is, there never really is free trade. Just like communism always turns out to be an oligarchy, free trade always turns out to be job losses in this country.