It is no secret that the United States has a huge trade imbalance with China. It is no secret that the Chinese manipulate their currency to steal American jobs. Long have politicians like the Senator for Communist China, Mitch McConnell found ways to outsource our middle-class jobs to China to take advantage of an oppressive Communist government that does not respect it's own people and treats them like slaves. Now, a solution has come from an unlikely place.
None other than Donald Trump is urging the taxation of Chinese imports. He believes this will create jobs in America, as well as evening our huge trade imbalance with the Chinese Communists:
When it comes to manufacturing, China is making all these products. They could be made in North Carolina, they could be made in Alabama, they could be made in lots of our places and right now they're not.
Personally, I'd tax China because it's not a free trade country. I would tax China very, very heavily...it would create jobs in this country.
The truth is, if we tax China, fairly substantially...you would have so much money in this country, you wouldn't have the trade deficits...you have trading deficits that are enormous in the United States....What will happen now, is other areas of the country will start manufacturing products, and that's what this country needs.
Of course the worst thing we could do is nothing. We have seen too many of our jobs outsourced to take advantage of an oppressed people. People with no rights to fight back. Our country desperately needs jobs, 11 million to get back to pre-recession levels. Our corporations just refuse to create them here. There is always some lame excuse, but Trump took on the notion that America is not business friendly also:
I think we're the most [business] friendly country. This country is so friendly. The biggest problem we have is with China is they're sucking money out of this country, and the horrible part is that they then loan it back to us. I know lots of folks in China. They think we are the dumbest son of [a blanks] in the world. They think our representatives don't know what they're doing. They laugh at us behind our back.
Now, I do not know about you but I do not like being laughed at. Especially by oppressive Communists who do not even afford their people with basic human rights. Even more painful is that all of this is done at the expense of the American worker and taxpayer. I think it is time that we did the right thing for America and as Trump has said start taxing Chinese imports and creating jobs here at home instead of exploiting an oppressed people.
It is not only the American thing to do but it is the moral thing to do too.
