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OssanAmerica
NIce photo. I wouldn't buy a used car from this man.
PTownsend
The good news is Trump and his fellow .01% are coming out in the open, admitting they're out for themselves at the expense of the rest of the US population.
The bad news is his base is unwilling to see he's once again shafting them. TRUMP
CrazyJoe
Germans buy German. Japanese buy Japanese. Chinese swell with pride to buy Chinese. We buy the cheapest. I think this country has been surviving on the savings and inheritances of the WWII and Boomer generations and when that dries up there will be another spike of people sinking into near poverty.
Start with Trump's daughter's fashion lines, made in Vietnam and China under brutal conditions!
M3M3M3
Very true. I don't really have a problem with the government spending a bit extra to buy local as long as it's kept within reason (ie. not sustaining or creating industries that would never be viable without government support).
Dango bong
what country does NOt promote its own goods? Why does America have to be the worlds welfare?
Dango bong
what a dumb statement. Loosening taxes for business starters is how you create jobs for unskilled workers, which is the majority of the population.
This si why since Trump took over the US economy, stocks and jobs have skyrocketed. Although you wont see that in the news, its more hip and fun to bash him.
bluesky.greentrees
USA cannot compete in Japan, unless Yen is a lot stronger.
katsu78
It's a basic principle of modern economics that specialization increases productivity. It makes more sense to specialize and trade for what you don't specialize in, than to try and do everything and be mediocre at it.
bass4funk
Yes, because that’s what Americans want, why do you think Walmart is so big?
Massive entitlement spending and income redistribution doesn’t help either.
How many JT readers were Nike, Adidas or NB or any other type of sneakers?
Tokyo-Engr
For many items I agree with this as this can be a national security issue. I do not see an issue with the U.S. government giving preference to U.S. companies when purchasing products and services. Most other countries do the same.
The greedy (1% or whatever one wants to call them) sold out the American worker long ago which has lead to quite a disparity between wealth and poor in the U.S. which shows no signs of reversing itself.
M3M3M3
Indeed. 'Self-sufficiency is the road to poverty', as they say. North Korea is a good example of that.
However, the principle rests on the theoretical assumption that the world you're living in is not a protectionist one. If it is, then no matter how productive you are, and no matter how great or cheap a product you make, you won't be able to sell it to Japanese or Chinese consumers.
domtoidi
The estate tax only applies to estates greater than $11 million. Trump is doing this for himself.
SuperLib
Corporations are sitting on record amounts of cash and the top 10% have been getting a near monopoly on all new wealth creation for decades while worker productivity has soared. Since your criteria of more wealth to the job creators already exists, where are the results you're promising?
SuperLib
I really have no problem with the US government working to support American businesses as long as we work within the framework of the agreements we have with other countries.
takeda.shingen.1991@gmail.com
None of those companies ran for president on a "buy American" platform.
Blacklabel
Ran for president and WON based on this policy and many others. So this is what the people who elected him want and expect.
Procurements by the US government should be from US companies. Anything else may the best product win in the consumer market.
bass4funk
What does her buying shoes have anything to do with him? You guys! Lol
Nice deflection or so How about answering the question now, please.
Most of these workers in many of the factories aren’t American and many are illegal, so why should they get paid more than an American worker? If so many of these companies had less illegals to work for them, we could give these jobs to Americans.
Let’s see, it’s been 9 months, Rome wasn’t built in a day, but it did take 8 years for the last admin to throw a monkey wrench in the works to decimate the middle class. In 4 to 8 years if the middle isn’t coming up as promised, digress.
sf2k
USA wants to be poverty stricken as fast as possible. Corporate welfare state. Some kind of corporate communism essentially where only oligarchy matters. It's deranged
bass4funk
That's especially happening in the most liberal cities
SuperLib
Are you talking about in America?
Their record cash and workers wages have been going on for a lot longer than 9 months.
bass4funk
Was that a rhetorical question?
Give it time, having an exploding Stock Market and confidence in it is one thing, the rest will come. It took the anointed one 8 years to devastate the middle class it will take at least a good 4 to 8 to see it come back to a decent level, especially once they get tax reform passed.
SuperLib
Well, no. I said that corporations are sitting on record amounts of cash and you said that most factory workers aren't American and are illegal. I didn't quite follow what you were saying. My point was that the cash is already there and the decent paying jobs aren't, so telling more more cash would get more decent paying jobs doesn't make sense. The data tells us more cash just means more cash without any of the benefits you are claiming.
The issue of the wealth gap and fat worker wages has been going on since the 1980s regardless of who is in the White House.
SuperLib
fat = flat