Things AssHat and I have agreed on in the past.
1. It is immoral to continue to give "most favored" status to nations which use slave labor.
2. It is not good practice to create a business environment that drives businesses away through either a. higher taxation or b. not sanctioning trade with nations that use slave labor.
3. Protectionism, although not isolationism, is something we should do.
Things he says we disagree on:
1. He constantly says I promote slave labor because I am a freemason.
2. He constantly says I am a "globalist" because I am a freemason.
3. He constantly says that I only believe lower taxation for businesses is the way to go, usually adding that I am a freemason.
Yes, AssHat, I am a Freemason. However, we agree largely on this subject regardless, you just want everybody to think nobody agrees. Most people won't engage you on the subject because of the following:
1. Almost everybody believes some form of protectionism is good.
2. Almost everybody agrees that slave labor is bad.
Now that we have the agreement, shouldn't we start working towards concluding on the issues where we don't.
We have the highest corporate taxation in the developed world (Japan recently lowered theirs, because businesses were leaving to avoid the punishing tax rates they had to pay), this is a doable and directly effecting form of legislation that could pass the current House of Congress. We need jobs, people know that, and even if Democrats try to say that companies are "evil" we know that they actually provide those jobs.
