Tariffs and sky high audio prices.

All I'm saying is that I don't mind paying tariffs on Chinese goods if that's what it takes to level the playing field with balanced trade agreements that give American factory workers a competitive chance.

Bingo! Free trade isn't really free when one side has to comply with protecting the snail darter while the other is free to belch out enough chemicals to light a river on fire. Is there a minimum wage in China? To pick just one item from one volume from the library of regulations US businesses must comply with. 

We can't, nor should we, tell other countries what laws they must have to be on equal terms. But we sure can make them pay a tax if they aren't. Its only fair.

So just today:.

1) its reported that Trump admin put the kebash on a climate change report that did not jive with the policy. To hell with mother earth......

2) NYT reports Mexico agreed to the actions to help with migrants a ways back


1984 indeed. Some people approve.

@miilercarbon

@nonoise

@david-pully

Miller, we can finally agree on something and I commend you for your insight. We SHOULD protect the environment and stand up for those creatures unable to protect themselves from extinction. We can all agree that a new strip mall or lead battery acid disposal site isn’t worth forcing any living creature into oblivion. And other neighbors on Earth SHOULD be careful with the air/oxygen we breathe and drink. We should live with high standards of character and human decency and expect others to do the same. In fact, we should require our friends and trading partners to be of high character and to honor their word at all times. So, we should put out a document where potential trading partners know the rules if they want to trade with us. Agree or we just won’t trade.

Any tariffs raised though should be allocated completely to those fellow citizens of ours whose jobs in the steel, coal, (insert industry with displaced jobs here) were shipped overseas or rendered obsolete. There is a small but thriving buggy whip maker in Catalonia who flat out stole American jobs because they didn’t charge enough for their whips. We should tariff the heck out their whips and give it our former whip makers who are now, heaven help us, forced to turn out bridles and belts. Who could disagree with that? Otherwise, it would be a tax, a revenue generation sleight of hand and that wouldn’t be honorable.

Rivers on fire? We have the Chinese beat on that one. Remember back in June of '69? The Cuyahoga River? How about tap water in some areas of the mid west being lit by a lighter for the last several years? All that good fracking and improper waste disposal that would make the Chinese blush.

All the best,
Nonoise

@ghasley 

Commendable recommendations but I see someone crying favoritism when it would be the right thing to do. Those on the right would call it a form of affirmative action or something equally silly.

Along the same lines, if we ever get off our asses and start manufacturing solar panels and the like (think light industry instead of heavy) those areas that were decimated by the very jobs they did, to support industries that turned their backs on them, should be at the top of the list when it comes to considering locations of said industry.

All the best,
Nonoise