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Politics : Liberalism: Do You Agree We've Had Enough of It? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: grusum who wrote (111707)	8/31/2011 11:30:16 AM
From: HPilot	1 Recommendation Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 224737

tariffs only make products more expensive. and when products are more expensive, people buy less of them. when people buy less 'things', there is less economic activity and less jobs. That is what the free traders have said for a long time. But this has proven to be wrong. Without tarif's countries with cheap labor and especially those with concentration camps and slave labor end up with the work. The countries with high labor rates lose out. The truth of the matter is that the economy is best when the tarif's are used to keep this in a competitive balance. free trade benefits everyone. it's protectionism that is a crock. some people don't like it when someone else is able to make a certain product cheaper. but the people that buy the product appreciate a lower price. global free trade would give everyone more abundance and lower prices. we shouldn't want to stop anybody from making things or otherwise put them out of business with tariffs. No free trade, this country had money. My mother did not have to work, and were able to raise me and my brothers well. Now we both have to work, and my parents retirement did not pan out as planned. Thanks to free trade. today's economy is the result of high taxes and burdensome regulations and a general fear of what the rickshaw president might do next. it's not the result of global competition. That is a large contributer, but not nearly as much as the free trade treaties and regulations.

To: grusum who wrote (111707)	8/31/2011 11:31:09 AM
From: HPilot	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 224737

tariffs only make products more expensive. and when products are more expensive, people buy less of them. when people buy less 'things', there is less economic activity and less jobs. That is what the free traders have said for a long time. But this has proven to be wrong. Without tariff's countries with cheap labor and especially those with concentration camps and slave labor end up with the work. The countries with high labor rates lose out. The truth of the matter is that the economy is best when the tariff's are used to keep this in a competitive balance. free trade benefits everyone. it's protectionism that is a crock. some people don't like it when someone else is able to make a certain product cheaper. but the people that buy the product appreciate a lower price. global free trade would give everyone more abundance and lower prices. we shouldn't want to stop anybody from making things or otherwise put them out of business with tariffs. No free trade, this country had money. My mother did not have to work, and were able to raise me and my brothers well. Now we both have to work, and my parents retirement did not pan out as planned. Thanks to free trade. today's economy is the result of high taxes and burdensome regulations and a general fear of what the rickshaw president might do next. it's not the result of global competition. That is a large contributer, but not nearly as much as the free trade treaties and regulations.