Tribbles are trouble too. Just saying.
The TPP was full of tariffs.
I’m of both minds on this. Tariffs are not good, but then again, how does an American worker survive on what they are paying these folks overseas and in Central and South America?
Tariffs are the price paid to do business IMO. Like poker ante! If the chinks and russkies et al are allowed to play the game in an un-level playing field, we lose everytime. Unfortunately the crooks in Congress are okay with that as long as they get paid off!
Give me a break. This globalist agitprop is woefully lacking any real statistics on trade and tariffs. The USA barely collects any import duties at all. Currently the AVERAGE tariff the USA’s exports face world wide is 8%. The USA on the other hand charges, on average 1% import duty. We are getting screwed by the RINO globalist in the GOP.
We had high tariffs for the first 180 years of our country’s existence, and we did just fine.
Our founding fathers viewed tariffs as a tax on foreigners wanting to sell into our economy. They also viewed it as a voluntary tax paid when American citizens chose not to buy American made products.
Since we lowered the tariffs in the 1960’s, we’ve seen an accelerating erosion of industry as more and more jobs get offshored to third world countries where the labor cost is extremely cheap.
In a world without tariffs, jobs will continue to offshore until American wages and Chinese wages are equal. Chinese make $2 a day for a 12 hour day. A world without tariffs is a race to the bottom.
Protectionism only works EVERY TIME it is tried.
We had high tariffs for the first 180 years of our country’s existence, and we did just fine.
Our founding fathers viewed tariffs as a tax on foreigners wanting to sell into our economy. They also viewed it as a voluntary tax paid when American citizens chose not to buy American made products.
Since we lowered the tariffs in the 1960’s, we’ve seen an accelerating erosion of industry as more and more jobs get offshored to third world countries where the labor cost is extremely cheap.
In a world without tariffs, jobs will continue to offshore until American wages and Chinese wages are equal. Chinese make $2 a day for a 12 hour day. A world without tariffs is a race to the bottom.
Income taxes are Protectionist.
Property taxes are Protectionist.
Globalist stupid words, rigged words: protectionist, shortage, isolationist etc. They cannot debate with regular language.
Tariffs work.
We put tariffs on softwood lumber coming out of Canada last year. Lumber prices went from $350 in June to now over $500.
http://www.cmegroup.com/trading/agricultural/lumber-and-pulp/random-length-lumber.html
But employment in wood products manufacturing was lower in Jan 2018 than in January 2017.
https://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.t17.htm
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tariffs_in_United_States_history
Ideologically I agree with you.
“The trouble with tariffs. Tariffs are taxes.”
Maybe, but if other countries are placing tariffs on you, you have to tax them back. Trade is not a one way street.