Do you favor economic isolationism

[el_bryanto]

There are a lot of good arguments to be made in favor of it. Our trade policies have shipped jobs over seas, and hurt the environment. Wealth in America has accrued to the very wealthy, and the standard of living in the US continues to drop, in part because we don't have manufacturing jobs anymore.

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[BillZBubb]

1. It's complicated. I don't support so-called "free trade" agreements.

They are merely a way for corporations in high labor cost countries to get cheap labor elsewhere, then sell the goods back to the market they robbed of jobs. It is a race to the bottom on wages.

My position is not isolationist because I have no problem with fair trade, where reasonable wage levels are protected. So, it is somewhat protectionist, but not in the sense of protecting corporations or industries--just wages.

[on point]

2. Isolationism is the wrong framing. Enforcing standards while engaging others is better.

That is not one of the choices, so I think this is a bogus push poll

[Maedhros]

3. There is an excluded middle between isolationism and corporate rule.

I'm in favor of levying tariffs on imported goods based upon the manufacturing country's environmental and labor laws, in order to help level the playing field for American workers.

[on point]

11. ^^^^ 1000+! Severe tariffs and penalties so counter productive to skirt rules.

Eliminate race to bottom game by making it MORE expensive to avoid environmental, labor, child protection and tax the wealthy laws.

Try that game and it costs too much to sell in USA, or other advanced countries. Make it HURT.

[Warpy]

4. Economic isolationism is simply impossible at this point

as the industrial infrastructure in this country has been weakened beyond any fantasy of self support.

Ask yourself what a trade blockade of any duration would do. Oh, the US is still a major oil producer and we could deal with rationing. What we would find it extremely difficult to deal with is no replacement parts for our cars, more expensive food, running out of cloth (we don't make it any more) and shoes (we don't make them any more) while still producing raw materials we no longer have the ability to manufacture into usable goods. We would also run out of a lot of critical drugs and vaccines very quickly, our health system would be crippled.

A truly strategic thinker would say we need progressive taxes, confiscatory at extremely high income levels, and the only way to avoid them would be to invest in restarting strategic industries producing the basic goods we need to survive a blockade--or a war.

We will have to do this at some point because our country has been gutted. It's an empty shell guarded by a massive nuclear arsenal.

[bemildred]

5. I support economic independence and self-sufficiency.

Within that frame, I support free trade as a secondary priority. But the most important thing is to be immune to economic pressure, to be self-sufficient.

[RunInCircles]

6. I support Balanced Trade

No more courts attempting years after the fact to slap a wrist because somebody cheated and another American business was undercut. Tariffs would rise on products from a country until their is no more trade deficit with that country. Where we have a trade surplus we should help with medicine and food help small businesses in that country export goods to us until balance is achieved. Balanced trade is good for both parties. This oxymoronic concept of free trade is just race to the bottom in disguise.

[aspirant]

10. I like "Balanced Trade"

When they scream "Balanced Budget" we scream "Balanced Trade"

[YoungDemCA]

7. Not really, no

We live in a globalized world-and overall, it's a good thing.

[kwassa]

8. Yes. I hate everybody.

[hunter]

9. We're all human. There is one earth. There is little isolation any more.

It's our current religious and economic ideologies that fuck everything up.

Many of the "isms" are pretty rotten. Racism, nationalism, fascism, fundamentalism, capitalism...

[Nye Bevan]

12. In the words of Paul Krugman,

"If there were an Economist's Creed, it would surely contain the affirmations 'I understand the Principle of Comparative Advantage' and 'I advocate Free Trade'."

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

13. "Workers of the WORLD Unite!" Is still a damned good idea.