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In reply to the discussion: Welcome to the global market. American workers NEED NOT APPLY. Thank you, free traders. [View all]Romulox
(25,960 posts)76. LOL. Now we can't control trade. It just IS! nt
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Welcome to the global market. American workers NEED NOT APPLY. Thank you, free traders. [View all]
Zalatix
Apr 2012
OP
Yeah but if we direct our anger at these laws, we're called racists, John Birchers and Xenophobes.
Zalatix
Apr 2012
#2
Alternatively, if capital faces few or no barriers to movement across international
coalition_unwilling
Apr 2012
#8
Tax them when they go overseas. Take away any tax breaks they have right now.
sabrina 1
Apr 2012
#43
So should/could we sell what we manufacture in other countries to those countries,
gateley
Apr 2012
#10
Actually there are another 700,000 workers that work for Apple through contractors
Zalatix
Apr 2012
#14
Clearly you are the one who cannot read. Oil is NOT over HALF our deficit. It is LESS than half.
Zalatix
Apr 2012
#34
LOL you don't read articles, do you? Learn to read before you start attacking me.
Zalatix
Apr 2012
#42
So what if they're headquarted in Cupertino? They hire 750,000 people outside the US
Zalatix
Apr 2012
#60
Then we need tariffs to force them to hire American workers to produce goods they sell here.
Zalatix
Apr 2012
#62
Tariffs mean that they'll be forced to hire Americans to produce the iPads they sell HERE.
Zalatix
Apr 2012
#68
High-enough tariffs would make it more profitable for Apple to produce the goods here.
Zalatix
Apr 2012
#88
Tariffs don't work. Just ask FDR. But I do like your idea of global unions and workers' party. n/t
pampango
Apr 2012
#80
Yes indeed, BLIND use of tariffs DO NOT WORK. Free Traders think we just want a blanket tariff war.
Zalatix
Apr 2012
#87
BMW employs people in the cheap labor, right to work South as a way to bust its Unions
Romulox
Apr 2012
#16
Remember last week when you were pretending not to be a cheap labor corporatist?
Romulox
Apr 2012
#27
If Irish labour is cheap it's because they have close to 15% unemployment
Spider Jerusalem
Apr 2012
#40
They rarely hire in America, though. Look at our trade deficit. That says it all.
Zalatix
Apr 2012
#32
Plenty of laws are slanted in our favor. Agriculture and intellectual property, for instance
Recursion
Apr 2012
#74
Independent monetary policy, a stable currency, control of capital flow. Pick any 2.
Recursion
Apr 2012
#77