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no make America money, and bring back the manufacturing / production
the globalist fascist liberals keep pushing their FOREIGN corporatism
for example... the new tariffs on solar
President Donald Trump’s recent decision to apply tariffs on imported solar panels was met with strong reaction in Washington, reaction that was very much divided along political lines. But the initial evidence shows that the tariff is working.
No fewer than nine companies have announced manufacturing expansion plans in the U.S. market in the past several weeks, all of them motivated partly by the tariffs. The biggest is JinkoSolar, a Chinese manufacturer that said it is committing $410 million to build a plant in Jacksonville, Florida, that will employ 800 workers.
Equally exciting, two American-owned companies, SolarTech Universal and Solaria, are planning to expand U.S. production in the coming months. The planned expansions demonstrate that effective tariffs can work, giving new life to a struggling American industry and strengthening the economy. https://www.lifezette.com/polizette/...ar-resurgence/
State-planned and managed economies always fail. Look at the USSR and Venezuela. Tariffs always fail.
When you have state backed companies engaging in monopolistic practices, IP theft, road blocks to US products and a plethora of other things it's not a free market.
The U.S. has never been a free market. It's always been a State-managed oligarchy. The events of 1913 (income tax, Federal Reserve) put the nail in the coffin.
But that is exactly what China is doing. There has been along trend of state backed Chines companies dumping key products onto the market with the long term goal of monopolizing the market. The solar industry is one of the clearest examples. Other industries include tires, steel, rare earth minerals.
I'm talking about the U.S. government. If I as a consumer prefer Chinese goods due to lower cost, or if I as a business owner prefer Chinese goods due to lower cost per unit, then it is my decision to do so.
If American solar, tire, steel, or rare earth mineral companies cannot compete with the Chinese, that is the market at work. Consumers will decide.
But that is exactly what China is doing. There has been along trend of state backed Chines companies dumping key products onto the market with the long term goal of monopolizing the market. The solar industry is one of the clearest examples. Other industries include tires, steel, rare earth minerals.
If the chinese govt wants to subsidize cheaper products for americans, thats a win.
If American solar, tire, steel, or rare earth mineral companies cannot compete with the Chinese, that is the market at work.
What you said previously was "free market", it is not and never will be a free market unless both sides are playing by the same rules. Those cheap Chinese products may provide you a short term benefit but ultimately it's a race to the bottom for your children and grandchildren. The Chinese government has a singular focus on long term goals.
Futhermore this is not just about you being able to buy cheap Chinese products, it's about the Chinese being able to buy American products. I don't know if it is still the same way but at one point it was so difficult to get software into China they were pirating it out of necessity. They literally could not buy a legal copy of Windows.
Wrong, those dollars traded to china come back to Americans with the purchase of our products.
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