Last year, a number of FReepers destroyed me when I brought this up, saying it’s “capitalism” and “free market”.
They seem to be scarce these days. Good.
Or maybe they changed their minds.
“Or maybe they changed their minds.”
There are so few remaining it doesn’t matter.
Or establishment trolls
The historic policy of the Republican Party was high tariffs to protect our industries and workers.
I believe in fair trade. Not in foreign countries engaging in cheap dumping of their goods on our shores while they price our goods out of their markets.
That’s been very costly for America.
Those were the ones that only knew the buzzwords and nothing beyond those words. They wanted to appear knowledgeable, but that commodity was unavailable to them.
“Last year, a number of FReepers destroyed me when I brought this up, saying it’s “capitalism” and “free market”.”
I think more people are aware now that the difference is not between free trade and destructive tariffs, but between the US getting royally raped under bad agreements, which is what we have now, or the US getting reasonable agreements.
You can’t have a global free market and nation-states at the same time. Somebody is going to abuse it and exploit it.
So I’m all in for internal free markets, it’s global free markets that I’m suspicious about. Face it, since NAFTA we’ve been selling our business assets and acumen and trading them for lawyers and bureaucrats. We’ve been letting China, chief among others steal intellectual property, proprietary industrial secrets, and military technology.
What’s there to think about? Doesn’t matter he’s appointed a hardcore. That doesn’t preclude negotiations, it just means negotiations are going to be tougher by a quantum leap for the Chinese.
So you would prefer this worldwide redistribution rather than putting a stop to it?
Merry Christmas
Tariffs destroyed Great Britain’s industrial base and many people are wary for that reason.
I, for one, am willing to give Trump the benefit of the doubt. No matter what else I think of him, it’s a fact that business is his wheelhouse.
Yeah that happens a lot around here.
It is kind of like some of these campaign promises that will not come to fruition that non Trump supporters were shouted down about.
We will see because personally I hope that I am wrong and promises like, Hillary and her ilk being prosecuted, border(s) secured, illegals deported, no more muslims into our country, military made stronger, and jobs created come true.
LOWER DOMESTIC TAXES ON YOU
A 10% China tariff is 10% less Obamacare tax some Republicans want to keep. See the tariff is already working as it REDUCES pressure on domestic taxing of native citizens.
While I’m sure China is buying certain advantages from our only native criminal class (aka politicians), the major problem is right here with regulations and taxes that are designed to drive companies offshore. Unfortunately, people seem to think China is the main problem. It isn’t. It is the regulatory swamp and tax policy. That is what we should focus on.
It isn’t free market, it’s selling-US-out market.