Posted by LMack on January 03, 2009 at 17:13:42 from (66.156.32.45):
In Reply to: Re: Belts? posted by mark on January 03, 2009 at 11:02:07:
Mark,
I like your passion, however socialism is defined as government ownership or control of the means of production. It has nothing to do with protective tariffs. Those of us in agricultural production were the first to buy into being under socialism (in the 1920's) when we gave up our liberty and allowed the USDA to control acreage and provide a support price. Now ASCS agents have free run of our land and I receive threats of criminal action if I don't return those annoying production projection forms. Not everything has been controlled. Watermelon production has never had a price support that I know of, nor greens or other truck crops. On some years those items are allowed to rot in the field because the cost to harvest is more than the price being paid. All our crops would be that way without Uncle Sugar. Are we willing to live that way? Cotton producers in my part of the country get more government payments than they expect to make from the sale of product. If we were to stop making the cotton payments, cotton production would move overseas.
Protective tariffs will benefit those who produce the item protected but will cost the consumers. That is not a question of socialism vs. non-socialism but a question of economics. What has put the U.S. at a competitive disadvantage with the rest of the world is not open borders, but tax policy (we pay the highest corporate marginal rate in the world) and environmental hysteria adding unreasonable cost the price of production and these two items are straight out of the socialist handbook. Larry McEver
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