What Does Donald Trump Actually Intend to Do About Trade?

[eniwetok]

30. more of your goal post moving...

Is that your main debating tactic... to keep moving the goal post? We're discussing nationalism... and instead of staying on topic you jump to something else. It's a classic sign of someone with an agenda who's going to hold an opinion regardless if their rationale for it hold up.

It should be obvious that not all corporate forms are the same... that some NATIONS put their corporations on a tighter leash than we do in the US. We're not the EU that provides for internal free trade but has internal transfers of wealth. Your idea of free trade is to allow rat eat rat competition pitting US workers and corporations who want to stay in the US against foreign workers and manufacturers. Wow!

We The People provide plenty of freebies to capital from free intellectual property monopolies like patents, copyrights, and trademarks to free limited liability protections to corporate owners which arguably should be purchased on the private market as insurance. Government did not try and level the playing field with labor protections until the 30s. Much of the social progress of the 20th century has been to civilize the amoral corporate form we created. You make it seem as if corporations were handed down on a slab and are our saviors. AGAIN... you're pushing a right wing meme. So as a society we don't have to control corporations... the "solution" is place the burden on individuals to create their own corporations and out compete the bad ones. Duh! I'm just waiting for you to say US workers can protect themselves if they just buy stocks in companies that leave the US. As our history proves in the rat-eat-rat market the amoral corporation has the competitive edge over the decent one. BTW... as a retailer Costco is not subject to the competitive forces a manufacturer is when we have free trade.

Is trade useful? Sure... IF IT BENEFITS BOTH SIDES. But AGAIN... your ideas on the "morality" of trade is to screw US workers because even if they're getting screwed they should be thankful their not impoverished by global standards, in order to benefit corporate owners and foreign workers.

Are you ever going to explain where our government is responsible for people in other nations?