Posted on 03/05/2016 7:30:32 AM PST by tatown
Semi-Super Saurday.
Why would Mexico increase the price of its goods due to our tariffs which tax our domestic distributors? Our tariffs do not affect what Mexico will get - the contract price between Mexican and America distributors is already established. Our tariffs directly injure the American consumer.
The forced increase in prices here could lead to a lower demand for the Mexican goods and may mean higher demand for the same goods elsewhere, but not necessarily from the U.S. But again that means the America consumer’s choices of best quality for best price has been artificially limited. That is bad news for the American consumer and the American economy.
For those who haven't already drank the Kool-aid, Ted is now totally working with the establishment.
He agreed with Romney, teaming up with Rubio, and despite his brokered convention is working with establishment to achieve just that. He knows he doesn't have a path but vows to stay in until the end.
Um, that would be a brokered convention.
Good to hear that there was good support for Cruz, the most honorable and conservative candidate.
I voted for Cruz here in Texas. Glad to hear he had a good rally in Maine.
The argument is that our tariffs on Mexico will cause them to inflate their prices. If so, Americans will turn away from goods produced there or elsewhere which will encourage Americans who could then compete to manufacture.
What are you willing to give up for the “best price”. Because currently we’re giving up our country.
OH! Thanks very much for THAT info!
Yes, Yes, Yes!
Trump’s visit to Kansas was a MUST!
I so pray he wins Kansas!
Someone told me that Trump now has the underdog factor.
The backlash is so great that people who were not interest or were dismissive have broken for Trump because of Romney and the pile on factor.
Two things: Romney is the embodiment of The Man - the rich white faceless power broker/business boogeyman taxing you, regulating you, keeping your wages down, etc.
When he came out against Trump, he effectively turned it into unfair fight. That is why Cruz is desperately trying to distance himself from the brokered convention talk because he knows there is a backlash.
FWIW. I just found it interesting.
Just got another unwanted text from Cruz crowing about a record turnout in Kansas and Maine. As if the turnout has nothing to do with Trump.
lol
First county to report in Maine ( Waldo ) has Cruz winning with 49% of the vote, Trump is second in low 30’s.
Fingers crossed Cruz has a good day.
Let me help you.
Companies who want to advertise Made in American or are required to be made in America for government contracts start the product here - send it to Mexico for all of the manufacture, then send the product back and the final 10% or 5% is completed here.
He’s going after all those American companies that are doing this.
If Cruz takes Maine or Kentucky, it’s fraud.
Sorry.
Nice to see this poll by Kansas Senator Moran hit the Wichita Eagle yesterday: “Trump wins Moran’s Kansas presidential straw poll”
http://www.kansas.com/news/politics-government/election/article64135342.html
I would prefer $5 lettuce or growing it myself than using what is close to slave labor for it.
Having lived in Europe, I feel they do clothing better than we do. Americans tend to buy a huge closet full of cheap clothing. Europeans tend to buy better made, more quality materials and wear the items much more. There is no rule that you have to be in different clothing every day. If the item is clean, even the wealthiest will wear it again, no problem. They buy fewer clothes, much fewer, each season and wear them out. This is why they often are much more currently dressed. They have small wooden wardrobes with a few seasonal outfits in it and that is it. Americans over consume. If we limited the huge piles of clothing we buy, we could afford to spend more for American made.
Yeah, because for a conservative to win a closed Republican primary is unheard of, so it must be fraud.
Got it.
Yet Cruz is angling for a brokered convention, no other way to see it.
The argument makes no sense for reasons I have explained. A tariff is us shooting ourselves in the foot. Mexico need not do the same thing.
What are you willing to give up for the “best price”. Because currently we’re giving up our country.
Who is taking away our country? Mexico? NO!! It is the the federal government. Why are businesses fleeing from America? Is it because of Mexico? NO!! It is because of the federal government.
Business rightly look for the most favorable environment to do business in which means finding where is the lowest cost environment. COST is the whole issue with business and the federal government continues to drive business costs through the roof. The reason businesses are fleeing the country is because of high federal taxes, federal minimum wage, suffocating dead-end federal regulations, and federal protection of unions. Tariffs do NOTHING to address these root causes and in fact make matters worse. Government's interference in the economy to "fix" an economic problem government caused in the first place always make matters worse.
Government causes the problem and then asks what how much quality of life are YOU willing to give up for government to interfere even more with the economy they themselves have screwed up in the first place. The answer is, No I am unwilling to give up my quality of life - it is way past time for government to give up government's quality of life.
Or Glenn Bates
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