Are you honestly comparing commercial activity to life or health-endangering situations? Really?
You lose credibility here with each post.

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[QUOTE=The Rabbi;2153378Are you honestly comparing commercial activity to life or health-endangering situations? Really?
You lose credibility here with each post.[/QUOTE]

Rabbi, there are financial agreements and contracts that have been deemed contrary to the public interest. Deregulating and less than diligent enforcement of existing regulations has just recently severely harmed our nation’s financial economy has been responsible for global financial and economic fiascos.

Trade deficit is ALWAYS and this proposal would NEVER be detrimental to a nation’s GDP.

I lose credibility? There's a self serving remark.

Respectfully, Supposn

[quote=Supposn;2153931]Please. Show me where an otherwise lawful transaction between private parties is going to be deemed "against the public interest".
When gov't can dictate who can sell what to whom on what terms we are in the gulag.

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[QUOTE=The Rabbi;2154037Please. Show me where an otherwise lawful transaction between private parties is going to be deemed "against the public interest".
When gov't can dictate who can sell what to whom on what terms we are in the gulag.[/QUOTE]

This proposal recognizes that trade deficits are contrary to our economic interests. It requires Import Certificates be surrendered to cover the assessed value of goods entering the USA.

Exporters of USA goods are not mandated to do anything.

Respectfully, Supposn

[QUOTE=The Rabbi;2154037Please. Show me where an otherwise lawful transaction between private parties is going to be deemed "against the public interest".
When gov't can dictate who can sell what to whom on what terms we are in the gulag.[/QUOTE]

Rabbi, within Buffett’s concept, no government or any other organization, (foreign or domestic) are granted any discretion of policy. Assessing goods’ values are technical rather than policy decisions.

On the contrary if (as both Republican and Democratic presidents have complained), foreign nations have been manipulating the global currency market and/or preventing U.S. goods from competing within foreign markets, those efforts would inflict insignificant (if any) harm to USA’s economy. Foreign entities that attempt to undermine us would be doing themselves almost immediate harm.

Federal trade negotiators could no longer determine which of various and often conflicting USA factions, (including conflicting goals of U.S. government departments) to support or betray). They cannot negate the law.

The law would require Import Certificates be surrendered to cover the assessed value of goods entering the USA.

Exporters of USA goods are not mandated to do anything; they may choose to pay the fees in order to acquire (and profit from) transferable IMPORT Certificates. The fees are set with the advice of the CBO to cover all of the federal net assessment and administration expenses due to this trade policy,

Respectfully, Supposn

Didn't Alexander Hamilton , as sec of the treasury, detail this back when he held that office?

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No offense Buffet is a great investor and like his mentor Graham he has a lawyer partner to keep him from doing something financially brilliant and legally stupid with the firm's money. I bet he didn't run this idea by his lawyer partner Munger because it sure sounds legally stupid to me despite my having only two business law courses. Graham said all manner of sensible and nonsensical stuff to congress too without running it by Newman his legal partner. When somebody is making money hand over fist and wants to pontificate about something he knows nothing about so what? We all need to blow off steam sometimes.

William the wie, the U.S. Congress has on occasion passed bills that were found to be unconstitutional. I suppose that’s what you mean by legally stupid?

Refer to a short 171 topic entitled “USA’s Trade Agreements” within
www.USA-Trade-Deficit.Blogspot.Com
None of the topics within this web site or the site
www.USA-Imports.Blogspot.Com
exceeds a single page length.

Respectfully, Supposn

No, he didn't.
Proposal fails.
Next topic.

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Nice word patently...it sounds so authoritative.

Now prove it that outsourcing isn't responsible for the decline in wages and jobs.

Go ahead, I want to see HOW you prove this.

More assertions with absolutely no facts and not even any logic to support them.

You do understand the difference between a statement and an arugment supporting that statement, right?

Rabbi,Within our history:

It was it illegal to keep persons in bondage.
It was illegal to import or keep slaves.
It was illegal for Government Supported Entities to deal in loans that were not federally insured.

It became legal for Government Supported Entities to deal in loans that were not federally insured.
My hope is that it will again become illegal for Government Supported Entities to deal in loans that were not federally insured.

It was legal for any bank to act an investment bank.
It became illegal for saving banks and other Federally Insured banks to act as investment banks.
I look forward to it again be prohibited for federally insured banks from to act as an investment banks.
[Refer to U.S. Message Board economic board’s topic entitled “Regulation of the finance industry”].

It was legal to drive an uninsured car on public roads. Now there are state laws prohibiting it.
It was legal to sell alcoholic beverages. Then it was illegal, now it is regulated.
There once were few if any laws governing the regulation of consumer products, buildings or zoning.

If I had the time, I’d find many previously legal commercial act that have later been declared to be illegal.

Respectfully, Supposn

i refer you to This Article which has Hamiltons 11 point manifesto

For over 200 years, Hamilton's policy made America the most powerful industrial nation in the world; now – after just 28 years of Reagonomics and Clinton/Rubinomics – we are the largest importer of other people's industry, and the most indebted nation in the world.

The entirety of Hamilton's paper is easily found on the web. The first third of it deals with Jefferson's objections to it (which Jefferson withdrew later in his life), as Jefferson favored America being an agricultural rather than an industrial power in 1791. Once you cut past that, though, Hamilton gets right to the rationale for, and the details of, his 11-point plan to turn America into an industrial power and build a strong manufacturing-based middle class. Ironically, his policies are exactly – EXACTLY – what Japan, South Korea, and China are doing today. And what we have ceased to do.


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I am not here to do your research for you.
However, start here.
Myths and Realities: The False Crisis of Outsourcing | The Heritage Foundation

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This is truely the weakest argument i've seen for free trade yet, not to mention 6 yrs old.....how many biz's have gone under or offshored since then?

seeing as we are somewhere in the area of a 70% service , as opposed to production GDP, i think we can regulate the HF to the trickle down contingent


Myth #4: Free trade, free labor, and free capital harm the U.S. economy.
An underlying myth is that economic freedom is a "race to the bottom" in which American workers must accept lower wages and fewer benefits in order to compete with low-cost labor in other countries.

Fact: Economic freedom is necessary for economic growth, new jobs, and higher living standards.

Countries that embrace economic freedom-including freedom of trade, labor, and capital-experience stronger economic growth than those that seek to thwart the market through regulatory hurdles and policy restrictions. The 2004 Index of Economic Freedom confirms a strong, positive relationship between economic freedom and per capita gross domestic product (GDP). Moreover, average GDP growth rates increase as a country's economic freedom score improves, as measured in the Index.[14]

In other words, policies that are antithetical to economic freedom, including trying to protect the jobs of a few workers from outsourcing, will inevitably retard economic growth and lead to fewer jobs in the future. Trade freedom is one aspect of economic freedom, of course, and the U.S. Trade Representative confirms that the benefits of free trade are staggering:

Last year alone, hidden import taxes cost American consumers $18 billion. Duty-free trade would eliminate these hidden costs and lower prices for consumers. While this proposal would offer substantial benefits to all Americans, it would particularly help low-income families. A recent study by the Progressive Policy Institute found that cutting U.S. import taxes especially benefits single-parent, low-income families, who typically pay a higher proportion of their income on import taxes than other households. A University of Michigan study found that the U.S. economy would expand by $95 billion as a result of tariff-free trade-contributing to job-creation and higher wages.[15]

A case in point is America's experience with the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), which has been a net boon for the U.S. economy and American workers. Employment in the U.S. increased by 20 million jobs between 1993 and 2000. In the 10 years since NAFTA's enactment, real hourly compensation has increased by 14.7 percent, including a 14.4 percent increase in manufacturing wages.[16] Trade among the three NAFTA nations has more than doubled, helping to lower prices for all consumers.

While free trade can cause localized pain for a few workers, the overall gains are overwhelming. The myth of lower wages due to increased trade is wrong on theory and wrong on the facts.



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