Increasing my taxes will not make me want to hire more Americans. What's going to happen is the tax hikes will force me to take money away from payrolls and give it to the government. Somehow I'd have thought that this really should not be something that needed saying on a conservative forum.
...the unfair advantage china, mexico and others enjoy due to very low wages and next to no environmental protections simply evens the playing field.
For me the market place is for buying and selling and not a feild for playing in, but even if it were we all know that there is never in real life where a playing field is perfectly level. We deal with it by trading off and deciding whether we want to play or not. As for business I'm going to choose for myself whether I'm willing to buy or sell stuff and for me it's a lot easier w/o the gov't taking over so certain party faction members can feel more 'protected'.
Oh, you enjoy enslaving third world peasants and polluting their environment just to make a buck. there is never in real life where a playing field is perfectly level.
that makes your enslavement of the peasants okay then - if you didn't, someone else would I guess.
great arguments you have there for "free" trade - the only "free" about it is the work provided by the slaves.