| JoeTheBro said: My opinon is the complete opposite.
Remove tariffs and other business fees We are a global economy now. Tariffs make just as much sense as Sony charging non exclusive developers extra to publish on the PS3. Imagine I wanted to buy a widget and an American company sells it for $20 while an identical foreign company sells it for $5. Without a tariff I could pay a few extra dollars and buy the foriegn product at half the price of the American one. As a result I still have $10! Now I feel "richer" and will be ok with spending more money. In time this money will find itself back to America. Adopt a fair tax It is rediculus that people think the rich aren't paying enough in taxes. Why should people be penilised for being successful? The fair tax simplifies this and gets rid of income taxes and closes almost all loopholes with the current system. Buy a burritoe, pay 15% tax on it. Buy a new car, pay 15% tax on it. Buy a used car, no tax! With a fair tax all goods have a one time tax of around 15%. This means used goods aren't taxed! Replace federal regulations with local The "white wigs in washington" have no idea what's going on in Elbert Colorado. By having State and local governments set regulations the whole system works better. I'll focus this paragraph on the EPA. I'm assuming most people love them right? Well to tell you the truth they suck at protecting the enviorment. My father is an entemologist and has to deel with them all the time becuase they don't have a clue on what's going on, especially on the local level. Usually they ban chemicals just because they have a certain concentration in the enviroment yet fail to realise the flaw in doing this. If chemical A kills rats with one dose but the new chemical B takes 10 doses to kill the same rat then obviously the EPA shouldn't ban chemical A. Recently it has got even worse with them declaring chemicals can only be used on certain rats. As a result in Colorado it was illegal to exterminate rats because we have a different breed of rats than the EPA had said the chemical could be used for. Exterminators had to ignore the EPA or else clients would fire them. If they followed the regulation factories would have to be shut down due to contamination issues from rats. Long story short my father had to contact the EPA and finally got a exception approved for our state a few weeks ago.
Sorry for this becoming a horribly written rant. |
No it's not horribly written - but let me tell you this.
We don't want a global empire, a global economy - we want a country. This "global economy" bullcrap basically means America is pushed to the side. We are in a trade deficit - did you know that? Read my posts on tariffs and protectionism again - when we implemented tough tariffs America's economy boomed, but with Bush's dumb free trade crap America has lost millions of jobs.
Globalization does benefit one group though - the financial elite. Americans and American workers? No way.
I do agree we should get rid of income tax and federal regulations.
