Protective tariffs are self-inflicted gun shots inflicting the AMERICAN consumer with higher prices and thus a lower standard of living for AMERICANS. Special interests can take a flying leap.
Go after the ROOT CAUSES of business fleeing the country which is the FEDERAL GOVERNMENT.
- Abolish the unconstitutional federal minimum wage
- Abolish unconstitutional federal regulations
- Abolish unconstitutional federal union protection
- Abolish federal corporate taxes which is a hidden form of higher individual taxes
Don't layer more government interference on top of the problems the feds have already caused.
The Leftist and confused do-gooders' answer for government failure is always more government. Utterly stupid.
And it's not "crony capitalism" either - another Leftist term meant to confuse the issue. The issue is the GOVERNMENT, NOT "capitalism". The corrupt, unconstitutional, and bone-headed acts of federal government be and must be rejected and abolished. THAT will make America a business-friendly country and THAT is what will make America great again.
Government never has, doesn't now, and never will make America great. Freedom has, is, and always will be the source of America's greatness.
I think Mr. Trump will use both the carrot and the stick to encourage business development in the United States.
I too worry about a situation where American made is sh!t but we’re forced to buy it because of tariffs (because I’ve seen it before), but I don’t believe “free” trade has been good for us either, so I’m agnostic on these trade proposals.
I think DJT is going to go for taxes and regulations as an incentive FIRST. Lower costs of goods made in countries like Mexico and China really haven’t been past down to the US consumer, and many of the products are cheap as hell.
You forgot to add, “Abolish ourselves as a meaningful political movement.”
Someone ought to go back in a time machine and tell those who funded the Federal government with nothing BUT tariffs, in the 19th century and back.
It’s an external-production tax. The only things that ought to countervail is perhaps (1) a balanced-trade allowance (situation that looks like barter); (2) something that really can’t be made in USA like the mines for it do not exist here; (3) perhaps a free-country allowance based on something like the CATO Foundation free country list (we’ll make the tariffs less for them). Local taxes and regulatory burdens, in turn, should be as LITTLE as possible.
..........can we carve your words on Mount Rushmore?!