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Thread ID: 11295 | Posts: 7 | Started: 2003-11-29
2003-11-29 02:38 | User Profile
The US has announced intentions of placing stiff duties (up to 47%) on Chinese-made TVs. The US accuses China of dumping.
Normally, duties are a result of US companies whining that a foreign nation is selling products at prices they can hardly compete with. But, who is being protected here?
I didn't know there were any significant television manufacturing in the US to protect. Is Bush trying to save jobs in Japan? Poor, poor Sony and Toshiba, with only $billions in sales, thank goodness Bush is going to bail them out.
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What's so wrong with an across the board 10% trade tarriff (and a moratorium on joining trade wars)? If an American business can't compete with a 10% penalty (plus high shipping costs) for importers, do they really deserve to stay in business? The across the board tarriffs will also encourage the government to better control the boarder. And, the money raised with that 10% can be used to lower taxes on American workers.
2003-11-29 08:35 | User Profile
I actually don't mind our protecting the interests of Axis powers like Germany, Italy, and Japan. They're going to be good friends to have someday. The Japanese, as a nation, make the Nazis look like dogs in heat. What I mean is, the Japanese, in a family of any respectability at all, will check out the prospective spouse of one of their own about to marry back 5 or more generations. The Japanese are a strong nation because they're racially conscious, and very racially pure. And as per a genetic study done a while back that made a bit of a flap, their ruling, Samurai class actually has a fair amount of Aryan genetic material due to the incorporation of Aryans in the dim past. And the Japanese look upon the US and how it's been Judaized and is in the process of being destroyed and racially mongrelized with horror. And they're often quite outspoken about this. It's just censored by our own jewsmedia.
2003-11-29 10:06 | User Profile
I'm curious to know what would happen if we went with a National Capitalism business model, such that [I]all* imports were banned. What would the negative effects be? Would most U.S. citizens lose in the grand scheme of matters, or would there be enough competion nationally to keep prices low? Before somebody cites the Detroit vs. Japan argument for free trading, another question: do we necessarily know that Detroit would continue to make crap indefinitely, even if the Japs did not make better automobiles?
2003-11-29 15:20 | User Profile
[QUOTE=JAT]I'm curious to know what would happen if we went with a National Capitalism business model, such that [I]all* imports were banned.
The Founding Fathers recognize international trade as a legitimate source of federal income. Modest tariffs would provide incentive for the feds to control the border as well as buffer American markets from internatonal events.
However, to ban imports would be a huge disaster. You'd create the mother of all black markets, with all the associated crime. And, there isn't nearly enough competition in most American industries for an acceptable level of efficiency, and there never will be as long as big companies and big unions get their way in Congress.
2003-11-29 15:57 | User Profile
[QUOTE=Happy Hacker]
What's so wrong with an across the board 10% trade tarriff (and a moratorium on joining trade wars)? If an American business can't compete with a 10% penalty (plus high shipping costs) for importers, do they really deserve to stay in business? [/QUOTE] Try operating a factory here and trying to compete with third worlders who don't have to pay homage to EOE, OSHA, Unemployment Insurance, Frivolous Lawsuits, etc..etc.. etc..
International trade is not free trade. Let's see... who dominates the import-export business worldwide? Could it be a certain international tribe?
2003-11-29 17:39 | User Profile
[QUOTE=travis]Try operating a factory here and trying to compete with third worlders who don't have to pay homage to EOE, OSHA, Unemployment Insurance, Frivolous Lawsuits, etc..etc.. etc.. [/QUOTE]
This is a reason for international trade, not against. If American companies didn't have to compete against foreign companies, there would be little pressure on the government to reduce frivolous lawsuits, to reduce excessive regulation, etc.
Big companies and big unions push to increase barriers to entry to prevent you from starting your own business and competing against them. If you have to pay high insurance rates, meet mountains of regulations, etc. then it will be harder for you to start a business. International Trade punishes this economic sabotage.
If you like, you can put up a tall fence around your property and not allow anything to be imported to your property. You can produce everything you need on your own property and pay yourself whatever you want in money with your face on it. What do you think that would do to your standard of living?
I could have a college degree in accounting, experience as an accountant, and be exceptionally skilled. Yet, I still wouldn't be allowed to teach accounting in the local high school because some incompetent teacher with a teaching degree(not an accounting degree) and a state license is the only one that meets the NEA-inspired standards of qualifications for teaching. The NEA gets away with this because education cannot be exported (not even to the private sector), so we're stuck with an expensive joke of a public school system.
2003-11-29 19:52 | User Profile
[QUOTE=Happy Hacker] If American companies didn't have to compete against foreign companies, there would be little pressure on the government to reduce frivolous lawsuits, to reduce excessive regulation, etc.
First of all, most of the pressure government gets is from the Jewish media, if politicians and bureaucrats don't respond, they get smeared.
Second, the corporations that import products from China and such can pressure government just as much as domestic companies can.
What do you think that would do to your standard of living?
[/QUOTE] I realize the economics of not being able to benifit by cheap labor, but it's worth it to have a lower standard of living for awhile if this is necessary to secure our sovereignty, self-determination and self-sufficiency