Jay
2008-02-07 08:23:48
Sorry Wolf, you’re partly right but so am I. Free trade deals with other countries allows them to flood our market with goods that are not taxed yet our goods sent overseas are heavily taxed via the phony Value Added Tax which is a substitute for a tariff. Other nation’s companies are thus subsidized by their governments and tailored to export to the US.
Furthermore, our government’s policies encourage the off-shoring of industry which leaves our nation a shell – a shell of restaurants, hairshops and lawn-care services – most of which employ illegal labor by illegal aliens. Nice racket, eh?
A country that can not make steel, automobiles, airplanes, boats, trains, tool-making, etc. is not long going to be a free, independent nation.
