Posted on 12/01/2016 1:04:51 PM PST by SeekAndFind
This is just another illustration of what we have done before God in the name of globalism. Jumping out of the “statist” (scare quotes deliberate) frying pan, we have jumped into the globalist fire, and we will be picked clean by the lazy countries of the rest of the world. Just be a spot for a factory, but don’t do anything else you don’t absolutely have to.
Exactly!
Well how about letting globalism be a forte for you? Then come back and let us have a discussion.
“Jumping out of the pan and into the fire” is a common expression for excellent reason.
But the asswipes weren't done. Corporations went international and having the USA and the Feds doing their bidding was not enough. Now they are tying to dissolve international borders! It's a bridge to far.
Who should prevail? Customers, big business in league with governments, or demagogic statist governments protecting their nation?
There may be a good reason to be international, if you have to build and sell in the same spot. But on the other hand if other countries get to require that, why not us?
Why don’t you explain what globalism is if it’s your forte?
A government carrying out the will of the people isn’t going to be promoting globalist locusts, that’s for jolly sure.
1000 jobs may not seem like much to our DC insider betters but it’s a big deal out here in flyover country.
You’d just mock, based on your history — that’s why.
Go and learn from the ant.
New York State looks like that everywhere.
Syracuse is a total basketcase. So is Rochester, and Buffalo, and Utica, and Binghamton, and, and, and....
The USA has literally been de-industrialized. Which has been the goal of the left for years. They want it that way.
“Federal and State Tax Revenues
Incrementally higher costs for Carrier products”
Under GW Bush, taxes went down, but Revenues went up. With lower taxes it is worth it to more people to get into or stay in the game - so the private sector will/should grow.
Probably higher costs due to making stuff in the USA. Of course if there are tariffs on imports - those will have increased costs too. And there is a cost to losing those jobs too. Gov’t has to take care of more people as they are out of jobs, etc., which raises our taxes.
And the general decay and “malaise” (to use a Reagan term about the Carter years iirc) that joblessness creates. Look at Detroit where all the automakers left and imagine a USA like that. Why would anyone want to go to Detroit (or the USA) to start a company?
I know that the high-tech and white collar stuff will still support a lot of American jobs. But I think the nuts and bolts industries need to make a comeback to give us a more balanced economy.
As with regard to the Carrier “deal” - I would agree that it isn’t the best to be making individual deals with companies (crony capitalism). I’m pretty sure that isn’t Trump’s plan - it will be an all inclusive plan with lower taxes, less restrictive regulations, etc.
Every regulatory requirement has a cost.
You want a minimum wage? - It has a cost.
You want a safe work place? - It has a cost.
You want clean air? - It has a cost.
You want clean water? - It has a cost.
You want to prevent money laundering? - It has a cost.
You want to ...(fill in the blank)...? - It has a cost.
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You want to avoid all of those costs? - You go somewhere else.
It wasn’t just the left that wanted that. The so called Free Trader Conservatives have no problem with it. It is depressing.
And the taxes go up and up as fewer cows are expected to yield more milk.
It’s a slow burn of the country’s static treasure. Because America did so well in the past, that can go on for a while, but eventually we get the seven emaciated cows of bible imagery and re-feeding them will be a GARGANTUAN task.
You have to decide if you hate unions, regulations and taxes more than you love your country.
Anti business, anti capitalist smoke blowers like you favor the government control of business as do the socialists we are trying to eradicate
But then you can’t complain about the environment.
I used the word ignorance because it directly applies
Government as the representative of the people is a bad thing? Look at that document. “We The People.”
What has happened is that government has been the representative of its own bloated bureaucratic self. And that has doled out the stored treasures of the land to globalists, and taken a portion of that as vigorish.
This has to stop if we are not to Venezuela ourselves, and the rednecks are going to have the political power to GET it to stop.
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