Washington, DC has spent decades – in bipartisan fashion – making the lives of our farmers more and more miserable. Ridiculous tax policies. Most especially the Estate Tax – aka the Death Tax: “Death taxes are taxes imposed by the federal and/or state government on someone’s estate upon their death. These taxes are levied on […]
Now-President Donald Trump has been remarkably consistent in his thoughts on global trade. Let us again flash all the way back to 1988. Then mere global businessman Trump was on “The Oprah Winfrey Show.” On which he said: “I do get tired of seeing the country ripped off….I do get tired of seeing what’s happening….How […]
Actual free trade – is actually free trade. Free from import tariffs, import limits and government subsidies. It takes every participant reducing its market warping – for it to be actual progress toward actual free trade. Everyone reducing their tariffs, limits and subsidies. If a country here or there unilaterally disarms – they are committing […]
We’ve been talking since at least 2013 about how un-free and un-fair our global trade has been. Global trade has been an anti-US mess – for decades. The planet has been massively ripping us off – in myriad ways. Which has done massive damage to our domestic economy – in myriad ways. Today’s Free Trade […]
Washington, D.C.’s very swampy denizens have spent the last half-century-plus perpetrating a panoply of frauds against We the People. Perhaps the most Gaslight-y of them all – has been DCs fake free trade. We the People have watched DCs fake free trade – dispatch millions of our jobs and trillions of our dollars to everywhere […]
I must admit, I laughed more than a little last week when a pair of headlines crossed my transom. Here’s the first: Apple Granted Over 2,000 Patents Last Year, Ranking It Around #10 in the US “Around #10” – ???: “Two different organizations came up with slightly different numbers and rankings….” Either way, in a […]
The Founding Fathers – were exceedingly intelligent individuals. They established for us with their Constitution a framework – which allowed us to create the most successful society in humanity’s history. And the Founding Fathers – loved Intellectual Property (IP). Because they knew how vital its protection was to their fledgling nation. Behold the Constitution’s Article […]
We less government types love federalism – rightly defined, of course: “A system of government in which states unite and give up some of their powers to a central authority.” That is precisely what happened in what became the United States. The thirteen colonies had just rid themselves of Britain. And by way of creating […]
We almost all surely know the story of the RMS Titanic: “(A) British passenger liner that sank in the North Atlantic Ocean in the early hours of 15 April 1912, after colliding with an iceberg during her maiden voyage from Southampton to New York City. There were an estimated 2,224 passengers and crew aboard, and […]
Donald Trump became President for a couple of fundamental reasons. Immigration was certainly a key component. Building a border wall and enforcing our laws – resonated. Putting an end to the US getting robbed over and over again by nations the world over – in awful trade deals, in Intellectual Property (IP) theft,… – resonated. […]