WTO, today, upholds US 36% tariff on imported Japanese hi-rust proof steel, used mainly in auto industry, confirming legality of tariff's imposed on some certain steels imported to US.
If you were a steel worker whose job was disappearing because of steel dumping you would not see tariffs as political, although I am a believer in free trade on a level field, others do dump, as do we, products on the international market, if they can get away with it. Here we subsidize the agriculture market under the guise of the "family farmer'. Some $50 billion a year given to one of the richest segments of our country. Daschel does not demand a 60 vote majority or these giveaways. The Democrats also hold up tort reform which costs this country's citizens an estimated $400 billion a year most of which goes in the fully lined pockets of the ultra-rich tort lawyers, and we pay for in higher product prices or loss of jobs through business bankruptcy. Of course the lawyers give millions of dollars to the democratic party on a par with the education lobby, which is another scam. The political system of this country depends on a very well developed system of 'legal bribery', described as political contributions. The Republicans are not amateurs at this either
Ken |
