This is wrong. Reagan set the example- reduce taxes and regulations and business will grow, employment will rise. Threats aren’t the way to go. Threatening some sort of retaliation will be counterproductive in the end. This should make people uneasy. It does me.
Read the Boss’ answer here.
http://freerepublic.com/focus/news/3500556/posts?page=7#7
Insightful, and on the mark...
Reagan imposed tariffs against Japan.
He was for ‘peace through strength.’ Well, if you say “oh no, we can’t have tariffs” ...that’s the weakness that allows every other country to come up with all kinds of trade barriers and games and they have rolled over us because they know we won’t do anything about it.
Same deal with NATO. Almost every country isn’t paying their share of the funding because they know they can get away with it.
“This should make people uneasy. It does me.”
Folks will have to suck it up buttercup. I support 100% the idea if American companies move out of the USA, costing their employees & the country there should be consequences.
Indeed. When did we as a party become opposed to businesses being given the freedom to strive towards achieving economically optimal solutions? If you have to be threatening companies to stay - or giving them incentives that ~other~ companies don’t get, for that matter - then that’s wrong. Our politicians job is to make the entire economic environment in the country such that companies ~want~ to stay. That it’s economically advantageous to stay.
Yes, labor in America is expensive compared to a lot of places. But we make that up in technological innovation and by avoiding the corruption and bribery you have in countries like China and India.
Or at least we’re supposed to.
Reagan got it right, make the country attractive for business small and big and competitive and no one will want to leave.
I’m all for free trade as long as it is totally free trade, otherwise forget it.