tarrifs

[dilbert firestorm]

https://www.rushlimbaugh.com/daily/2019/05/13/why-we-must-hang-with-trump-on-tariffs/

China had a 10% tariff on all U.S. goods while our tariff on Chinese goods was 4%. It was like that for decades. There was no outrage from the Drive-By Media. There was no outrage from the Washington establishment because they’re the ones that put the deal together. Donald Trump is the one who noticed it. Trump did not start this again. Even after Trump increased the tariff on Chinese goods to 10%, our tariffs were still lower than what the ChiComs had on our goods.

“In a defensive war waged for liberty and to secure basic rights, the Americans invaded Canada in an effort to win by force of arms what could not be won by negotiation…” This is just three years ago, 2-1/2 years ago, the New York Times has a story that basically confirms what I have been trying to get people to believe for the longest time. The American left does not like this country, does not believe that any of these original sins that are part of our founding can ever be fixed, can never be corrected, because they are permanent.

It’s a long-ass story. I had to staple it together, it’s so many pages. So the idea that America is flawed, that America is an unjust superpower, that America is responsible for an unstable world as the lone superpower, explains why we give away the store. Which explains why we let the U.N. tell us what to do and pick our back pocket. It’s why so many American presidents, whatever the U.N. says about it — climate change or getting out of South Africa — we’re right in there agreeing with it because we have to accept the premise that we are not the good guys.

Well, Trump doesn’t believe any of this. Trump thinks this is crazy. Why should the United States, as the world’s lone superpower, basically punish ourselves, particularly if the effort is oriented around showing people we don’t mean ’em any harm and we just want them to like us? That’s what Trump is trying to fix in addition to very specific unfairness of the trade arrangements we have with the ChiComs.

Patrick Buchanan: Tariffs -- The Taxes That Made America Great

https://www.cnsnews.com/commentary/p...-america-great

Tariffs, to protect manufacturers and jobs, were the Republican Party's path to power and prosperity in the 19th and 20th centuries, before the rise of the Rockefeller Eastern liberal establishment and its embrace of the British-bred heresy of unfettered free trade.

Tariffs were the taxes that made America great. They were the taxes relied upon by the first and greatest of our early statesmen, before the coming of the globalists Woodrow Wilson and FDR.

A tariff is a tax, but its purpose is not just to raise revenue but to make a nation economically independent of others, and to bring its citizens to rely upon each other rather than foreign entities.

Of the nations that have risen to economic preeminence in recent centuries — the British before 1850, the United States between 1789 and 1914, post-war Japan, China in recent decades — how many did so through free trade? None. All practiced economic nationalism.

Once a nation is hooked on the cheap goods that are the narcotic free trade provides, it is rarely able to break free. The loss of its economic independence is followed by the loss of its political independence, the loss of its greatness and, ultimately, the loss of its national identity.

[friendly fred]

Most of the people complaining about the defensive trade actions likely are losing money if they cannot exploit low wage workers in foreign countries as well as here in America.

[rexdutchman]

All true very sad but true,

[dilbert firestorm]

Originally Posted by dilbert firestorm

Once a nation is hooked on the cheap goods that are the narcotic free trade provides, it is rarely able to break free. The loss of its economic independence is followed by the loss of its political independence, the loss of its greatness and, ultimately, the loss of its national identity.

this is what happened to the British empire. it got drunk on the richness of free trade which made them militarily weaker and alot of brit insiders very rich.

of 2 world wars they were in, required american help!