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pan6467 · 02-26-2004, 08:19 PM

Your point is? Fair, balanced trade does promote healthy relations between countries and yes, it it a necessity to have.

But by paying these countries workers pennies on the dollar so that companies like NIKE, Wal-Mart, and so on, can make millions is not fair and balanced trade. It IS EXPLOITATION AND PROMOTES HATRED. Don't tell me how that is a "free Market" because it doesn't even relate to a free market.

The only way this is a fair and balanced trade and free market is if workers would be paid the same and had the same rights and laws in Malayasia to make shoes as they would be in the U.S., otherwise pure and simple it is exploitation. Also the nations import taxes would be equal to the other. Which we don't have either as China and Japan tax our steel out of competition with thiers, yet we have little taxes on thier.

You know how to get out of taxing the US citizen so much? Tax corporations and countries imports more....... maybe the same rate they tax out goods going into thier countries would be a good starting point. Of course that's too "liberal and leftist and isolationistic thinking". The reason why that doesn't come into play is corporations would then start losing thier profit margins and the GOP (along with alot of DEMS) would lose thier campaign funding.

02-26-2004, 08:19 PM	#65 (permalink)
pan6467 Lennonite Priest Location: Mansfield, Ohio USA	Your point is? Fair, balanced trade does promote healthy relations between countries and yes, it it a necessity to have. But by paying these countries workers pennies on the dollar so that companies like NIKE, Wal-Mart, and so on, can make millions is not fair and balanced trade. It IS EXPLOITATION AND PROMOTES HATRED. Don't tell me how that is a "free Market" because it doesn't even relate to a free market. The only way this is a fair and balanced trade and free market is if workers would be paid the same and had the same rights and laws in Malayasia to make shoes as they would be in the U.S., otherwise pure and simple it is exploitation. Also the nations import taxes would be equal to the other. Which we don't have either as China and Japan tax our steel out of competition with thiers, yet we have little taxes on thier. You know how to get out of taxing the US citizen so much? Tax corporations and countries imports more....... maybe the same rate they tax out goods going into thier countries would be a good starting point. Of course that's too "liberal and leftist and isolationistic thinking". The reason why that doesn't come into play is corporations would then start losing thier profit margins and the GOP (along with alot of DEMS) would lose thier campaign funding. __________________ I just love people who use the excuse "I use/do this because I LOVE the feeling/joy/happiness it brings me" and expect you to be ok with that as you watch them destroy their life blindly following. My response is, "I like to put forks in an eletrical socket, just LOVE that feeling, can't ever get enough of it, so will you let me put this copper fork in that electric socket?" Last edited by pan6467; 02-26-2004 at 08:22 PM..