Trump's campaign is to increase taxs on china and other countries we as a nation are buying. He wants to run this country like a business, but with compassion. Trump wants to have the countries we are defending pay us for the cost of defending. DO you think a country can be run like a business and still have the people's say? -kirsten
After listening to this I don't think country can be run by a businessman - at least by this one. Does Trump really understand what he's talking about? Tax China. First of all, there is a whole lot of other cheap product sources on the US market, like Mexico or Guatemala. They will sure be happy to have a bigger share when China is gone. Can you possibly ban all those countries or put taxes on their products? suppose it is possible. Now, everyone in the USA wants to earn a lot of money, that is why "made in USA" is more expensive than "made in China". Whole class of cheap products will disappear, or it may remain alive if businesses find enough illegal aliens for cheap labor. American market needs cheap products of decent quality that China provides. Even the hi-tech devices are assembled there for American companies. Imagine how much your Ipod would cost if assembled by workers who want at least 8 bucks an hour.
What they're saying about international relationships is just ridiculous. America went into Iraq and protects Korea because of ts own interest. The losses turnes out bigger than profits, but it does not mean someone has to pay the USA for its failure. I think there is enough of the fact that US is ready to kill foreign AND its own people to keep the economy going. I'm not talking about Afganistan - that is the only justified war since WWII. The government knew what it was doing. Nobody asked US to intervene, nobody is going to pay. Also, if the USA government thinks the world is their playground, they'd better think again. Why did Russia make that missile treaty? Because we don't want US military influence anywhere near our border. USA did not like USSR missiles on Cuba for some reason. It was totally normal reaction. It is NOT normal to think every nation in the world is eager to do whatever you dictate. I think China is making a wise policy when refuses to let US business in. They are one of the few nations not dependent on the US, and it is quite an advantage when the States are not doing too well. They didn't suffer the 2008 recession because they are not hookes up on the USA that much. What fairness is Trump talking about? There might be som in business thanks to the laws, but there is no fairness out there on the world scene, no friends, no honesty. I think Trump is far from ready to be a president if he believes in fair play in international affairs.
Obviously the Trumpmister wants to tun this country like a business and tax China and other countries we defend. I don't know if that is going to work and if people are going to pay. I like what Ekaterina said, she is really smart and I agree.
By the way, the countries that America "helps" pay her back in full. They are those who buy most of the outdated weapons. Those countries' economies are also extremely dependent on the US: imagine what happens when the troops come in, destroy everything looking for terrorists, bombs, oil or whatever else, find it or not, say "sorry" and help rebuild - with an interest. A cool way to hook the country up on American economy. I don't judge it, it's a reasonable thing to do for any powerful country - some kind of modern colonization through economy - but please, don't call that help, because it only helps the US. It just came across my mind that Trump is too old and (probably) intelligent (seeing how successful he is) to not realize all this stuff. Maybe he's just running a wise campaign on what's popular among people, but I doubt he'll keep the promise if he wins, it would just be crazy to do.
USA vs. China, and the rest of the world. I think Trump could bring some ideas to increase jobs, but as Kate said, the tax increases on Chinese products just wouldn't work out. Seems like lobbyists and manipulation are going to get in the way. Guess we'll hear in June whether or not he runs.
I think the only other question that hasn't been brought up already is; isn't that too easy? If all we had to do was tax china, or any of the other fixes he "recommends," wouldn't that have been done? America is already looking at a possible trade war with china; one that we would loose. If we raise taxes on them that could be enough of a catalyst to create more problems than it solves. One problem we have already run into is when we raise taxes upon Chinese goods, they reciprocate and raises taxes on our goods, They can afford to loose some business with us. The US does export a lot of materials to China, if our goods were to become more expensive Eropean markets could benefit and the US would loose in the long run.
I think our country needs some money and the way he wants to run our country would get us that money. I also agree with Ekatrina in that this would change the united states into a totally different country. We protect other countries becuase they are in need. Many of the countries that we are presentally protecting would not pay us to protect them. they would just tell us to get the hell out. I would not vote for him becuase he wants to run the country like a busness. The taxes would just cause more problems like karl said.
The one statement I agree with Trump is that barral prices on ol are to high and OPEC is robbong us. What would he be able to do about the collusion OPEC has created on the US and the world? From what he has so far proposed, I don't see anyway he could solve that; nor do I see any way an American president can prevent a middle eastern organization from raising barrel prices. It should lso be noted that OPEC's prices go up and down but Exonn and other american companies that buy from OPEC don't lower prices either, so who is really to blame OPEC or the American companieds that distribute the oil? Would Trump attack those companies or would he focus on OPEC who he can't control? As for the tarriff Trump has suggested, I am not sure how well it work. Many chinese companies take advantage of the sweat shops but so do american companies. Nike is an Oregon company, they do most of their designing, marketing and business in Oregon, but the shoes themselves are produced in China because employees are much cheaper. Raising taxes would start a trade war while American are constantly trying to solve the problem themselves. America prides itself on innovation so I think America needs to compete the way we always have, innovation. -Harry
I think that Trump is on the right idea of gaining money but i don't think that taxing another country is going to do the trick. I would be very interesting to see what Trump would do with complete power but i don't think that people would like to have Trump as president. -Joshua
Let me start by saying it's refreshing to hear some thought about international issues. I beleive taxing other nations would only hurt our relationships with them and lower the amount of resources imported from these places. On the same note I feel that becomeing more dependant on our own resourses is a solid idea with the current economic state. zach
Taxing other nations is not a good way to get rid of our debt. Taxing China would be especially ridiculous since they are the ones that have loaned us most of the money in the first place. We can't tax China in order to pay off the debt that we owe China. Refusing to even speak with Chinese officials would add to the problem rather than get rid of it. If we cut China out they can easily demand the money that we owe. Our country would go bankrupt. Like it or not, China is a major part of our economy. I do agree that America should be run like a business, but there are also diplomatic relations that need to be taken into account. It is not as simple as just raising taxes. Donald Trump needs to realize that you just can't fire China.
I agree that some aspects of running the country like a business would be beneficial; as we need someone who knows what they're doing in terms of jobs and the economy. Taxing China will not help though; as others have pointed out, we depend on China for too much and there would be too much risk in diplomatic relations because of our debt. Emily
I agree with some parts of his campaign, running a country like a business can have its strong advantages. However, i also believe that running a country and running a business are two completely different things. Also, taxing China can help in a very little amount yet in order to get the country out of debt that plan would take literally two decades just to make a somewhat larger impact. Another question is, will the tax put a strain on the relationship between the U.S. and China?... OF COURSE it will. Especially since the huge North and South Korea has restarted in a giant way. The hostilities between the countries are very thin, so do we really want to cause more hostility by pursuing a tax on China?
I agree with Alex; taxing China would be extremely stupid of us when China is the one we have loaned the most money and are in the most debt with. "Thanks for the loan, China, but now we're going to tax the shit out of so you can pay our own debt too." I think there are many other more important components in running the United States than having good businessman skills.
While I do believe some aspects about running a country should be run LIKE a business, there some areas in government that cant simply be solved by some CEO. I understand how successful the guy is but the structure of our country's government is based of the people. Do you think he has ever been ran by his employee's negative! as for the taxing thing why create a potentially hostile situation with a country that plays such a huge part in our economy. -Peter
I think many government agencies have lost touch with functional reality. When was the last time you had an enjoyable experience at the post office or dmv?... If the government ran more like a business, many aspects would run more efficiently and effectively. Further, Americans have forgotten the foundations of what a politician should be. Our forefathers were not career politicians, but rather lawyers, dentists, businessmen etc who fulfilled their duties in office and then returned to their previous profession. Our society has evolved to believe that politicians are a divine breed who study political science at Yale and are compared in terms of "experience". I'm not saying that Trump is the most politically adept possible candidate, but whatever happened to voting for the man/woman who can best do the job instead of choosing the politician with the best smile and slogan.
Though there were only 14 days between interviews most of the topics were repeated which makes me wonder about the efficiency of both airtime and Trump’s potential platform. A clear message of Trump’s is that America is a weak nation unable to stand up to other countries and we have become their “whipping post”. Many times over Trump and Savage say that appeasement is not the proper policy in dealing with payback from China, South Korea, and Iraq. Mr. Trump states that China and OPEC manipulate currency and value so that we cannot compete globally. Trump notes that “we are being run stupidly” and shares that we are literally rebuilding China. Trump agrees with Savage that the county should be run like a business and not an empire but adds that is should be run with compassion because there are many opportunities for the country to help those who are less fortunate. When asked about international defenses Trump says he would pull troops out of the Middle East as soon as he could because we are only being a police force. Trump backs a much stronger military that we currently have but does not believe it is being properly used. A common word used throughout both interviews is “toughness”. Trump says that if there were situations similar to what was going on in Russia they would have to be dealt with intelligence and the afore mentioned “toughness” My thought is that in our current economic state some of the ways Trump wants to deal with our debts could further devalue our currency against country’s that hold it because if we try to stand up to them they would become angry and further manipulate value.
We need to get rid of our debt but taxing other nations is not the way to do it. Especially not China since they did loan us the money. It seems a bit silly to think about taxing China in order to repay China. Refusing to speak to officials would make things worse.. If we cut China out they can easily demand the money that we owe. The US is in the hole enough as it is. Raising taxes is not the solution. And neither is pissing off China.
The US helps many countries and gets nothing in return. I do realize that if we did ask for something back we would not have this great national debt. But part of America is being there for other nations to form a good relationship even if it takes away from us. Donald Trump wants to run the nation like a business, but I don't think you can treat a country quite like a business. I agree with Anna C. Taxing the other countries isn't quite right. I don't feel like the government has the right to bill other nations we've helped.
I don't think it's right to lump a nation together such as the Chineese coming over to see Obama 'so as' to 'steal our technology. Also, businessmen have no right to complain that the US is losing jobs. We can easily keep all our jobs, just at a larger cost. To put it in a nutshell, Donald Trump, you will fail.
After helping other countries without warning of charge, we can't go in and expect them to pay us back. Governments are not businesses and should not be run like them, we need to have a solid separation between the two. Trump is a businessman as we all know, and we can't turn to somebody who is so involved in something other than politics and guiding in some other form than government to make our countries decisions.
Trump's natural tendency is to be a business man. That's how he looks at every situation, from a business perspective. But you can't run a country like that. Sure there will be some instances where you need a business mind set, but not all the time.
Trump's campaign is to increase taxs on china and other countries we as a nation are buying. He wants to run this country like a business, but with compassion. Trump wants to have the countries we are defending pay us for the cost of defending. DO you think a country can be run like a business and still have the people's say?
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It depends on what the people say about the business.
ReplyDeleteAfter listening to this I don't think country can be run by a businessman - at least by this one. Does Trump really understand what he's talking about?
ReplyDeleteTax China. First of all, there is a whole lot of other cheap product sources on the US market, like Mexico or Guatemala. They will sure be happy to have a bigger share when China is gone. Can you possibly ban all those countries or put taxes on their products? suppose it is possible. Now, everyone in the USA wants to earn a lot of money, that is why "made in USA" is more expensive than "made in China". Whole class of cheap products will disappear, or it may remain alive if businesses find enough illegal aliens for cheap labor. American market needs cheap products of decent quality that China provides. Even the hi-tech devices are assembled there for American companies. Imagine how much your Ipod would cost if assembled by workers who want at least 8 bucks an hour.
What they're saying about international relationships is just ridiculous. America went into Iraq and protects Korea because of ts own interest. The losses turnes out bigger than profits, but it does not mean someone has to pay the USA for its failure. I think there is enough of the fact that US is ready to kill foreign AND its own people to keep the economy going. I'm not talking about Afganistan - that is the only justified war since WWII. The government knew what it was doing. Nobody asked US to intervene, nobody is going to pay.
ReplyDeleteAlso, if the USA government thinks the world is their playground, they'd better think again. Why did Russia make that missile treaty? Because we don't want US military influence anywhere near our border. USA did not like USSR missiles on Cuba for some reason. It was totally normal reaction. It is NOT normal to think every nation in the world is eager to do whatever you dictate.
I think China is making a wise policy when refuses to let US business in. They are one of the few nations not dependent on the US, and it is quite an advantage when the States are not doing too well. They didn't suffer the 2008 recession because they are not hookes up on the USA that much.
What fairness is Trump talking about? There might be som in business thanks to the laws, but there is no fairness out there on the world scene, no friends, no honesty. I think Trump is far from ready to be a president if he believes in fair play in international affairs.
YOUR FIRED!!!!
ReplyDeleteObviously the Trumpmister wants to tun this country like a business and tax China and other countries we defend. I don't know if that is going to work and if people are going to pay. I like what Ekaterina said, she is really smart and I agree.
Maybe we could hire him as an accountant for a couple of months.
ReplyDeletePresident? People will vote for him without looking at the other arguments. We'll see how it works out.
By the way, the countries that America "helps" pay her back in full. They are those who buy most of the outdated weapons. Those countries' economies are also extremely dependent on the US: imagine what happens when the troops come in, destroy everything looking for terrorists, bombs, oil or whatever else, find it or not, say "sorry" and help rebuild - with an interest. A cool way to hook the country up on American economy. I don't judge it, it's a reasonable thing to do for any powerful country - some kind of modern colonization through economy - but please, don't call that help, because it only helps the US.
ReplyDeleteIt just came across my mind that Trump is too old and (probably) intelligent (seeing how successful he is) to not realize all this stuff. Maybe he's just running a wise campaign on what's popular among people, but I doubt he'll keep the promise if he wins, it would just be crazy to do.
USA vs. China, and the rest of the world. I think Trump could bring some ideas to increase jobs, but as Kate said, the tax increases on Chinese products just wouldn't work out. Seems like lobbyists and manipulation are going to get in the way. Guess we'll hear in June whether or not he runs.
ReplyDeleteI think the only other question that hasn't been brought up already is; isn't that too easy? If all we had to do was tax china, or any of the other fixes he "recommends," wouldn't that have been done? America is already looking at a possible trade war with china; one that we would loose. If we raise taxes on them that could be enough of a catalyst to create more problems than it solves. One problem we have already run into is when we raise taxes upon Chinese goods, they reciprocate and raises taxes on our goods, They can afford to loose some business with us. The US does export a lot of materials to China, if our goods were to become more expensive Eropean markets could benefit and the US would loose in the long run.
ReplyDeleteI think our country needs some money and the way he wants to run our country would get us that money. I also agree with Ekatrina in that this would change the united states into a totally different country. We protect other countries becuase they are in need. Many of the countries that we are presentally protecting would not pay us to protect them. they would just tell us to get the hell out. I would not vote for him becuase he wants to run the country like a busness. The taxes would just cause more problems like karl said.
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The one statement I agree with Trump is that barral prices on ol are to high and OPEC is robbong us. What would he be able to do about the collusion OPEC has created on the US and the world? From what he has so far proposed, I don't see anyway he could solve that; nor do I see any way an American president can prevent a middle eastern organization from raising barrel prices. It should lso be noted that OPEC's prices go up and down but Exonn and other american companies that buy from OPEC don't lower prices either, so who is really to blame OPEC or the American companieds that distribute the oil? Would Trump attack those companies or would he focus on OPEC who he can't control?
ReplyDeleteAs for the tarriff Trump has suggested, I am not sure how well it work. Many chinese companies take advantage of the sweat shops but so do american companies. Nike is an Oregon company, they do most of their designing, marketing and business in Oregon, but the shoes themselves are produced in China because employees are much cheaper. Raising taxes would start a trade war while American are constantly trying to solve the problem themselves. America prides itself on innovation so I think America needs to compete the way we always have, innovation.
-Harry
I think that Trump is on the right idea of gaining money but i don't think that taxing another country is going to do the trick. I would be very interesting to see what Trump would do with complete power but i don't think that people would like to have Trump as president.
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Let me start by saying it's refreshing to hear some thought about international issues. I beleive taxing other nations would only hurt our relationships with them and lower the amount of resources imported from these places. On the same note I feel that becomeing more dependant on our own resourses is a solid idea with the current economic state.
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Taxing other nations is not a good way to get rid of our debt. Taxing China would be especially ridiculous since they are the ones that have loaned us most of the money in the first place. We can't tax China in order to pay off the debt that we owe China. Refusing to even speak with Chinese officials would add to the problem rather than get rid of it. If we cut China out they can easily demand the money that we owe. Our country would go bankrupt. Like it or not, China is a major part of our economy. I do agree that America should be run like a business, but there are also diplomatic relations that need to be taken into account. It is not as simple as just raising taxes. Donald Trump needs to realize that you just can't fire China.
ReplyDeleteI agree that some aspects of running the country like a business would be beneficial; as we need someone who knows what they're doing in terms of jobs and the economy. Taxing China will not help though; as others have pointed out, we depend on China for too much and there would be too much risk in diplomatic relations because of our debt.
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I agree with some parts of his campaign, running a country like a business can have its strong advantages. However, i also believe that running a country and running a business are two completely different things. Also, taxing China can help in a very little amount yet in order to get the country out of debt that plan would take literally two decades just to make a somewhat larger impact. Another question is, will the tax put a strain on the relationship between the U.S. and China?... OF COURSE it will. Especially since the huge North and South Korea has restarted in a giant way. The hostilities between the countries are very thin, so do we really want to cause more hostility by pursuing a tax on China?
ReplyDeleteI agree with Alex; taxing China would be extremely stupid of us when China is the one we have loaned the most money and are in the most debt with. "Thanks for the loan, China, but now we're going to tax the shit out of so you can pay our own debt too." I think there are many other more important components in running the United States than having good businessman skills.
ReplyDeleteWhile I do believe some aspects about running a country should be run LIKE a business, there some areas in government that cant simply be solved by some CEO. I understand how successful the guy is but the structure of our country's government is based of the people. Do you think he has ever been ran by his employee's negative! as for the taxing thing why create a potentially hostile situation with a country that plays such a huge part in our economy.
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I think many government agencies have lost touch with functional reality. When was the last time you had an enjoyable experience at the post office or dmv?... If the government ran more like a business, many aspects would run more efficiently and effectively. Further, Americans have forgotten the foundations of what a politician should be. Our forefathers were not career politicians, but rather lawyers, dentists, businessmen etc who fulfilled their duties in office and then returned to their previous profession. Our society has evolved to believe that politicians are a divine breed who study political science at Yale and are compared in terms of "experience". I'm not saying that Trump is the most politically adept possible candidate, but whatever happened to voting for the man/woman who can best do the job instead of choosing the politician with the best smile and slogan.
ReplyDeleteThough there were only 14 days between interviews most of the topics were repeated which makes me wonder about the efficiency of both airtime and Trump’s potential platform. A clear message of Trump’s is that America is a weak nation unable to stand up to other countries and we have become their “whipping post”. Many times over Trump and Savage say that appeasement is not the proper policy in dealing with payback from China, South Korea, and Iraq. Mr. Trump states that China and OPEC manipulate currency and value so that we cannot compete globally. Trump notes that “we are being run stupidly” and shares that we are literally rebuilding China.
ReplyDeleteTrump agrees with Savage that the county should be run like a business and not an empire but adds that is should be run with compassion because there are many opportunities for the country to help those who are less fortunate.
When asked about international defenses Trump says he would pull troops out of the Middle East as soon as he could because we are only being a police force. Trump backs a much stronger military that we currently have but does not believe it is being properly used. A common word used throughout both interviews is “toughness”. Trump says that if there were situations similar to what was going on in Russia they would have to be dealt with intelligence and the afore mentioned “toughness”
My thought is that in our current economic state some of the ways Trump wants to deal with our debts could further devalue our currency against country’s that hold it because if we try to stand up to them they would become angry and further manipulate value.
We need to get rid of our debt but taxing other nations is not the way to do it. Especially not China since they did loan us the money. It seems a bit silly to think about taxing China in order to repay China. Refusing to speak to officials would make things worse.. If we cut China out they can easily demand the money that we owe. The US is in the hole enough as it is. Raising taxes is not the solution. And neither is pissing off China.
ReplyDeleteThe US helps many countries and gets nothing in return. I do realize that if we did ask for something back we would not have this great national debt. But part of America is being there for other nations to form a good relationship even if it takes away from us.
ReplyDeleteDonald Trump wants to run the nation like a business, but I don't think you can treat a country quite like a business. I agree with Anna C. Taxing the other countries isn't quite right. I don't feel like the government has the right to bill other nations we've helped.
I don't think it's right to lump a nation together such as the Chineese coming over to see Obama 'so as' to 'steal our technology. Also, businessmen have no right to complain that the US is losing jobs. We can easily keep all our jobs, just at a larger cost. To put it in a nutshell, Donald Trump, you will fail.
ReplyDeleteAfter helping other countries without warning of charge, we can't go in and expect them to pay us back. Governments are not businesses and should not be run like them, we need to have a solid separation between the two. Trump is a businessman as we all know, and we can't turn to somebody who is so involved in something other than politics and guiding in some other form than government to make our countries decisions.
ReplyDeleteTrump's natural tendency is to be a business man. That's how he looks at every situation, from a business perspective. But you can't run a country like that. Sure there will be some instances where you need a business mind set, but not all the time.
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