I must have missed his post where he explained how free trade is detrimental to the US economy? Still waiting to hear him explain how artificially raising prices (through higher taxes) on steel and aluminum for the US consumer as well as the US manufacturer will produce economic growth.
I would hope that SMALL businesses would operate in their own self interests instead of jeopardizing their investors money and their workers' jobs by serving some alternative goal.
I'm not the one here proposing arbitrary laws - jpsb is. I am the one here advocating that government get the hell out of the way.
Interesting. So you are perfectly OK paying seven times the world price for sugar just so US candy manufacturers can shut their doors here and open up shop across the border simply because our government chose to "protect" some Hawaiian sugar plantation owners. Maybe you can explain to those unemployed workers how wonderful it was that our government prevented them from reaping the benefits of a free market.
At least you're open in your support of higher prices and loss of jobs.
Correctamundo. They operate according to their own self interests.
But you just admitted that people don't look at labels. They look at prices.
Tariffs aren't needed to enable you to 'buy American'. You can do that by simply looking at the label. It is your free choice, just as it is my free choice to look at price. You operate in your own self-interest, and I will operate in mine. And my self interest is not centered in paying more for steel or aluminum than I have to.
@Hoodat "I would hope that SMALL businesses would operate in their own self interests instead of jeopardizing their investors money and their workers' jobs by serving some alternative goal."
What in the hell does that even mean?
"I'm not the one here proposing arbitrary laws - jpsb is. I am the one here advocating that government get the hell out of the way."
Again, your comment makes no sense. The government is not going to 'get the hell out of the way' so at least I'm hoping they are working for the good of the country.
"Interesting. So you are perfectly OK paying seven times the world price for sugar just so US candy manufacturers can shut their doors here and open up shop across the border simply because our government chose to "protect" some Hawaiian sugar plantation owners. Maybe you can explain to those unemployed workers how wonderful it was that our government prevented them from reaping the benefits of a free market."
You've really gone round the bend here.The government is not protecting sugar. Sugar was once one of Maui's top products. The last crops were razed last year and the big processing plant closed. There was no protection. The plant owners simply could not get enough workers for what they were able to pay and stay in business. Nobody wants to work in sugar fields or pick cotton apparently. Your ignorance on this topic makes me doubt all your other opinions and assertions.
Everyone except maybe Mother Theresa operates on what is in the best interest of ourselves and our families.
We should not have to 'buy American.' Especially when we can't. We should be able to buy products based on their quality and price. We should not be forced to operate in a trade imbalance where our products are taxed by other countries and theirs are not.
Nothing you say makes any sense at all.