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Huh? That's what should have been done a long time ago.
American jobs. American workers. Creating jobs, HERE in the USA!
They want to import? Then make them pay a significant tariff!
Tariffs hurt American jobs
Many Americans who were going to utilize solar and would have employed American shippers, dock workers, truck drivers, electricians, carpenters, etc. will now wait/cancel due to an extra 31% tax on their purchase.
Happy now?
That is why this nation always had tariffs, until NAFTA and the 2000 China Free Trade Act, both signed by globalist Bill Clinton.
Hear that sucking sound? That is the sound of jobs leaving the USA. - Ross Perot
Yep. The unions opposed NAFTA too.
It was heavily supported by the republicans but a very large number of dems also signed on including such names as Reid, Kennedy, BIDEN, Kerry and so forth.
And people think there is a big difference between the 2 parties. lol.
Huh? That's what should have been done a long time ago.
American jobs. American workers. Creating jobs, HERE in the USA!
They want to import? Then make them pay a significant tariff!
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Originally Posted by Frank DeForrest
Tariffs hurt American jobs
Many Americans who were going to utilize solar and would have employed American shippers, dock workers, truck drivers, electricians, carpenters, etc. will now wait/cancel due to an extra 31% tax on their purchase.
Happy now?
You've got to be kidding. You are grasping for straws claiming that losing American manufacturing is ok because we'll have the workers pulling foreign goods off the boats.
Can't you just admit it? You are against this because Obama did it. Had a Republican president suggested it or done it, you would have been all for it. Oh wait, that's already happened. Romney vows tough stance on China trade | Reuters
It's not crony capitalism when China manipulates its own currency to keep the rates favorable to them last I checked.
Besides, China products are garbage.
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You've got to be kidding. You are grasping for straws claiming that losing American manufacturing is ok because we'll have the workers pulling foreign goods off the boats.
Didn't you get the memo? All those solar panels being cranked out of Hillsboro don't need to be shipped around the country or anything...
It's pretty pathetic to see the right advocating anti-competitive practices on the part of China. I suspect the reasoning is twofold. One, there's a Democratic administration, and thus every action is inherently evil and wrong. Two, they don't like the idea of clean energy (I've never understood the right wing worship of waste and pollution), and thus don't like anything that might help keep our solar industry from shriveling up and dying.
So you would prefer that the jobs involved in creating solar panels are in China rather than in the U.S.
Remember that the next time you complain about the unemployment rate in the U.S.
Not to mention the utter lack of quality control when it comes to Chinese products. Amazing ain't it, the President does something to help Americans and someone has the whine about that also.
And if he didn't people would be complaining that the playing field is not level for American companies to compete with the Chinese and that he was allowing US companies to fail. Regardless of what the POTUS does he is screwed even if this is a better option for getting US companies opportunities within the US.
Huh? That's what should have been done a long time ago.
American jobs. American workers. Creating jobs, HERE in the USA!
They want to import? Then make them pay a significant tariff!
I agree, and I would add those tariffs to products made overseas by US companies, since after all it is still not an American Made product.
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