Posted on 01/26/2017 12:47:03 PM PST by SeekAndFind
Edited on 01/30/2017 7:57:50 AM PST by Admin Moderator. [history]
MEXICO CITY--President Enrique Pe
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Tariffs are a rational policy to maintain an independent nation as our founders understood and you clearly do not.
As for eliminating the minimum wage. Sure, let's leave it all to the fine folks who've flooded the US with legal and illegal Third World immigrants to keep wages down, and have moved millions of jobs to cheap labor nations, and use any other scheme available to lower the wage US workers.
The so-called free market, on an international basis, is little more than a fantasy entertained by the naive and exploited by the globalists.
At America’s beginnings, tariffs that were used to help us as a fledgling, new country and economy. But we are the most powerful, richest country in the world now. There’s nothing wrong with giving a baby a bottle for their milk. There’s everything wrong with a strong grown man still drinking out of a baby bottle.
As far as the misapplication of globalism, you’re confusing political globalism which threatens national sovereignty, with economic voluntary cooperation in free trade between businesses in different countries which does not threaten national sovereignty but actually strengthens it.
LOL!!!
You’re a funny guy.
For a while there I thought you were serious.
Idiot.
Lol, they're all mixed up together along with many other motives various groups have for supporting pretend free trade agreements and the globalist goals of open borders and the erosion of national sovereignty. - The European Economic Community preceded the EU. The globalists proceed in stages and can use all the useful idiots they are able to hoodwink into their cause, wittingly or unwittingly.
You've spent too much time reading econ books and not enough time observing the world as it really is, and the behavior of individuals and nations as they really are.
Free trade and free markets work pretty well within the USA, but not so much on an international basis. We finally have a president who'll stop the pretense and resist the goals of the globalists, and deal with the world as it is for the benefit of US citizens.
We’re done and the American consumer will pay for the Trump tariffs.
Hope is was a helpful discussion for any onlookers.
Good luck.
American taxpayers (present and future) are paying for every lost factory and job all these trade agreements have caused by supporting the one in five families where no one is employed, and the one in five heads of household who are on one or more of the means tested poverty programs, which now cost more than $1 trillion per year.
And there is our real employment rate, around 20%. But we save so much by shipping jobs to cheap labor nations and getting goods back the some claim are cheaper. Only for those who are capable of looking at only one stage of a multi-stage chain reaction that is always present in our dynamic economy.
Good-bye and the American consumer will pay for the Trump tariffs.
Good bye and good luck.
Only in the minds of those who do not understand how economic events ripple throughout our economy.
To the ignorant, economics is rocket science but it’s not. When business costs go up, their prices go up, else thy go out of business. It’s pretty simple, really. Only the Left and the ignorant deny it.
The American consumer will pay for the Trump tariffs.
Bye again and good luck again.
That and the headline is a lie.
I saw the interview, and the sentence started with, "For example..."
Yep put a fee on all those Western Union Transfers and before you know it. . . PAID!
Mexico has vast oil and natural gas reserves. They are 35 years behind in the development of those.
Trump should “encourage” them to accelerate oil production especially offshore in Campeche Bay. He also should “encourage” them to contract with American company’s using American workers who have the technical expertise to do the work.
It would be a Win, Win. Mexico gains the revenue to pay for 10 walls. American company’s benefit from the work.
Cool beans.
Mexico would have
People who are hoping manufacturing robots will help the problem are not figuring that this requires a lot of training that current lower income US workers may not get or be able to learn. People who think Trump’s charging a 20% import charge rather than charging a remittance export fee won’t hurt food costs are not thinking it through. We will not be expanding food production in US without the people willing to do stoop labor at what Mexicans work for here. In a town like Chincoteague, VA, stores hire girls from Russia and other lower income European places to work in the grocery stores because they can’t get the local labor.
Here is a link from a source you many not like, but there are a lot of pro Trump comments as well as one’s that just bring up potential wall building problems I have not heard here. One was, “where will we build the wall, in the middle of the river or on the US bank, thus ceding the entire river to Mexico,” and creating big problems for people using that water for cattle and agriculture.
Nobody said it would be easy.
This is a situation that has been forced on us.
What else is there to do.
We’ve got millions coming over per year, and the cartels own any route they want near our southern border.
Gee, the labor for picking a packing a $2.50 head of lettuce is 3 cents per head. We can afford to double wages to 6 cents and pay Americans to do it. Most other fruits and vegetables are the same. IA ma tiered of throwing away our sovereignty for pennies on the dollar.
Well, once we Trumpize the welfare rolls, there should be plenty of eager applicants.
(of course they'll need remedial education in math and spoken English )
Looks like they get about $50 million a year from us in foreign aid.
Ska-rew that!
At gas stations people play a surcharge for paying their bill with credit cards. Law could provide that pre paid cards cannot be used for sending (as) remittances unless the fee were paid in advance and paid to the feds.
Postal money orders have the name and address written on them and the PO could charge the fee and remit to the feds.
If the remittance fee were something like between 2% and 7% it would probably not cause a mass exodus. The estimated remittances are $26billion. Four percent would provide $1billion a year. With the the legal work needed to build the wall it will take a while. Legal work like eminent domain cases, negotiating for water rights for people along border rivers, payment for land rental, dealing with local, state, and national park issues, etc. will slow down the actual building time.
I like the idea of a tariff it is more in your face Mexico. I don’t care if there is a one time 20% raise in imported goods form Mexico. Worth it IMO. I buy a bottle of tequila once a year. If a tariff shuts all those factories dumping product into the USA then hurray for that!
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