anotherlife
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Agreed. That is why real budget cuts and shutting down redundant government departments and laying off non-essential employees and contractors has to happen. That is precisely what Trump is focusing on.Who said he commissioned them?
If God didn't commission the creation of states, then my point stands.
For who? Not for most people, it doesn't.
For everyone. Competition boosts the economy, and a stronger economy will inevitably create more opportunities.
Ask the British what happened when they did away with their tariffs while everybody else kept theirs.
Tariffs are highly unpopular among British economists. You're still ignoring the fact that they are steeped in no logic whatsoever.
American companies pay tariffs on their exports now. The U.S. grew to a world power via tariffs protecting its industries from foreign dumping.
False. The United States had a high tariff policy leading up to the great depression. Since 1933 the United States has maintained a policy of extremely low tariffs. Pretty much the rest of the world too.
it makes it less and less worthwhile for your own people to strive for those jobs, and eventually you become entirely dependent on foreign labor.
Only foreign labor that is cheaper and more efficient. If domestic companies cannot stay competitive, then they shouldn't be protected. All that is doing is protecting unsustainable and uneconomic behavior.
Products sell for what they get for them, period; no company lowers their prices just because they cut labor costs or any other costs.
Lower costs = higher profit margins. More profit = economic growth. Economic growth = jobs
I didn't say lower costs = lower prices. I explicitly stated that lower costs = greater profits. The former is true as well.
High productivity jobs get replaced with unemployment and low paying part time service jobs.
This doesn't even make sense. When low income factory jobs are outsourced, high income white collar jobs are created domestically. It's basic macroeconomics.
And I didn't say tax cuts would be what increases the tax base, I said bringing back jobs here and increasing investment here would work to to do that.
My point still stands. No increase in the tax base can be made fast enough to offset the increased deficit.
What is a non essential employee?
This is corporate hr speak.
Non essential employee is who you can lay off as soon as you force the other employee to do two people's job in a 12 hour workday.
How is that an improvement?