I have no problem with this per se.
2. No tariffs, especially with your example. Our imports and exports are distinctly separate economic events. We want to buy their crap, they don't want to buy our crap. The proprietary magic of laundry detergent, shampoo, paper towels and disposable diapers is a genie who's left the bottle, we have no value add to provide the Chinese. If they don't want to buy our top products: Department 56 Snowbunny Collectable Porcelain Figureines, Class Action Tobacco Lawsuits and Ron Popiel Spray on Hair products, that doesn't mean we can't buy Clay Aiken oven mitts, air sickness bags and plastic stuff we expect will break from them. We buy cheap stuff from countries so poor that their population can only afford the cheap stuff they're selling to us. I would hope we have a negative balance of trade with these countries.
No our imports and our exports are not distict events. Where do you come off thinking you have a right to harm the USA by bringing in imports from China. Congess has the right to impose any duty they wish per the US COnstitution. Why do you insist on a policy that has never been proven. I have an open solicitation to anyone to post a full regression analysis of the costs and benefits of a tariff in US History that shows a NET harm. I have in the past posted such an analyis that shows a net benefit from one case. Maybe then we can have a discussion based upon facts. I note I do not accept a tariff that is combined with a tax increase and tightening monetary policy as proof that the tariff harmed the economy. Remember I said the analysis said both sides for a net figure. Certainly, if tariffs are bad these studies should abound and a link should be easy to find? I have searched and many other Free Trade advocates have searched yet they have not been able to meet this challenge.
Now your ranting about snow bunny collectables is IMHO irrational and I find it very difficult to refute irrstional rants except to point out they are irrational.
3. The military knows how to run a logistics operation. Our firmware and software is an ongoing artistic work in progress, and it is that capability of innovation and adaptation that ensures we have an invulnerable grip on our hardware systems. No foreign adversary can ever reverse engineer USMC Lt. General Jim Conway or the guy perched over a tube in a J-STAR or any of the other superprofessionals who work our soldiering defense.
No one has a higher respect for our US military. However, I find the exporting of our miltary technology treasonous. The fact that the men and women in harms way are the best at what they do does notmean that their technological edge should be exported to nations that have declared their hostility to the USA. that will get American military people killed uneccisarily.
4. The Colorado Avalache make their organization better, their competition better and the league better when they bring Joe Sakic, Peter Forsberg and Milan Hejduk onto their team. We want the best and brightest in the U.S.A., we intend to win and we want the world's alpha males and supermodels plying their trade here, for our firms.
I do not have a problem with immigrants. I do have a problem with short circuiting the normal immigration process to provide a company with the ability to get arround the need to pay a market wage for skills they need such is a subsidy to the company taken directly from teh pool of potential employees. No one has a right to immigrate to the USA or to bring any specific foreign national into the USA.
5. See Number One.
6. Amen Brother.
7. I want the best of class materials available at the best price, regardless of original country of manufacture, in any weapon, tool or physical asset we provide our military.
With military equipment there are issues of continuing supply and technology transfer. During the recent war in Iraq a Swiss company denied the UK a continuing supply of certain war materials. Your objection ignores this need and could get American military people killed. If we become engaged in a more protracted campaign where much of our existing inventory is expended teh reliability of supply becomes crucial. Without reliable supplies it is far more likely Americans in harms way will die uneccessarily. Amatures and small units focus on tactics Generals focus on logistics.
8. Moving expenses are a legitimate cost of business, impacting profitablility and ROI to shareholders. If the expenses are AARP legitimate domestically, they're legitimate internationally. The income derived from overseas operations remains taxable domestically, the expenses derived to produce that taxable income should be allowed as well.
Not for capital going offshore.
9. Perjury is a false statement under the auspicies of a legally binding oath or obligation. Hiring an H-1B to leverage a labor opportunity shouldn't rise to that level of unique import. Nobody should have to lie to want to hire the best individual for the job.
Well now since the H1B program requires a statement under oath there is no American available for the job and the H1B is getting the prevailing wage perjury has been committed. I want to see it prosecuted. You are arguing for ignoring the requirements of an existing law that qualifies as a subsidy to business because by definition it allows them to short circuit the normal market by ignoring the usual requirements for immigration and bring people in with no immigarnt status.
What is your real agenda?
10. Our Federal Government needs to BUY the ownership of proprietary technologies and processes developed by Privately owned corporations under contract. Our government needs to own ALL the patents, copyrights and intellectual property we fund Loral, Honeywell, Boeing, GM and Bell to invent and design. American taxpayers should get a little residual from every autofoucus-based camera the Japanese sell, Honeywell designed that technology for our warplanes for mucho $billions.
Why? Do you think these companies have a right to export Technology that was originally Federally funded and they orifinally agreed to not export without consent? You are becoming irrational again.
11. The identification, arrest, processing and deportation of 5 million entrenched illegals is fantasy. Let's address the reasons people leave their families and homes, swim across the Rio Grande as criminals to reach a place where they don't speak the language or know who is who and where to go. Thank you Hillary Clinton. while we are at it when can have midnight basketball to address the root causes of gang violence in cities.
12. Amen brother.
13. Let's let compensation issues be a contractual agreement between each unique employer and his individual or collective providers of labor service.
As I stated in the point itself this point should be irrelevant if the other 12 are passed.
Now the summ total of your objections seem to be you think teh USA should be part of some internationalentity and our borders pretty much erased. Your irrational hatred of traiffs is one indication of this. What do you have against a Free Market in the USA? Clearly there is no such thing as a world Free Market. You are not against tariffs or subsidies in any other part of the world only in the USA. You seem to have a great deal of sympathy for the poor Chinese but no sympathy for hard working Americans put out of work by government policies taht allow subsidies to infect our relatively free market.
I must ask this question are you an American or landed immigrant in the USA? If you are you should seriously consider rethinking your stand on these issues due to your obligations as a citizen or landed immigrant. If you are not then you have so no such duties to this nation.