Let's Develop Atlasia's Economy! Act (Failed)

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

As I see it, this is exporting the cost of TNF's excessive economic legalism onto the backs of foreign goods and services, the producers of which will then have less money with which to buy goods and services from us. It would risk millions of jobs dependent upon what products we do export will be lost, as well as those in transportation, communications, wholesale and retail trade. And chances are you won't regain the jobs you are seeking, you will only drive more companies overseas as companies who rely on these goods in their supply chain are forced move overseas or worse shut down entirely.

It says something that the greatest era for Free Trade, also coincided with record levels of economic growth and prosperity, until the rest of the world had recovered from World War II and we found we couldn't compete with the antiquated equiptment and New Deal era economic hinderances.

I grew up in Pennsylvania. We drove by the ruined hulk of a steel mill everyday riding when my Mom went shopping or took my father to work. I know what competition can do, but I also know that a good deal of that is because we sent them onto the baseball field with two anvils tied around the legs and we wonder why the struck out everytime.

We should help our people compete, we should crack down on cheaters and we should make sure that we benefit from trade as much as possible. But slapping tariffs on stuff in a hap hazard manner is not going to restore our economy, it will give us an economic disaster.

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

In the 1950's tariff levels were being reduced through mult-lateral trade agreements.


It is easy to latch onto a historical level without the appropriate context. And remember, you said it yourself, won the war and were the only competitors. That means that foreigners had no choice but to pay whatever we demanded because we were the only source. So regardless of what we put on them they couldn't retaliate and still rebuild. And we were reducing our tariffs at the time to encourage trade and assist in the post war rebuilding as well.

If thisi s truly the minimal necessary to compete, I would prefer a matching system that works based off the particular circumstances with a country rather than the approach taken here.

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

Senator, I've proposed a preliminary list. Please tell me if you have any proposed revisions!!!

Allies
Israel

Cheaters
Afghanistan
Albania
Algeria
Andorra
Angola
Antigua and Barbuda
Argentina
Armenia
Australia
Austria
Azerbaijan
Bahamas
Bahrain
Bangladesh
Barbados
Belarus
Belgium
Belize
Benin
Bhutan
Bolivia
Bosnia and Herzegovina
Botswana
Brazil
Brunei
Bulgaria
Burkina Faso
Burundi
Cabo Verde
Cambodia
Cameroon
Canada
Central African Republic
Chad
Chile
China
Colombia
Comoros
Congo, Republic of the
Congo, Democratic Republic of the
Costa Rica
Cote d'Ivoire
Croatia
Cuba
Cyprus
Czech Republic
Denmark
Djibouti
Dominica
Dominican Republic
Ecuador
Egypt
El Salvador
Equatorial Guinea
Eritrea
Estonia
Ethiopia
Fiji
Finland
France
Gabon
Gambia
Georgia
Germany
Ghana
Greece
Grenada
Guatemala
Guinea
Guinea-Bissau
Guyana
Haiti
Honduras
Hungary
Iceland
India
Indonesia
Iran
Iraq
Ireland
Italy
Jamaica
Japan
Jordan
Kazakhstan
Kenya
Kiribati
Kosovo
Kuwait
Kyrgyzstan
Laos
Latvia
Lebanon
Lesotho
Liberia
Libya
Liechtenstein
Lithuania
Luxembourg
Macedonia
Madagascar
Malawi
Malaysia
Maldives
Mali
Malta
Marshall Islands
Mauritania
Mauritius
Mexico
Micronesia
Moldova
Monaco
Mongolia
Montenegro
Morocco
Mozambique
Myanmar (Burma)
Namibia
Nauru
Nepal
Netherlands
New Zealand
Nicaragua
Niger
Nigeria
North Korea
Norway
Oman
Pakistan
Palau
Palestine
Panama
Papua New Guinea
Paraguay
Peru
Philippines
Poland
Portugal
Qatar
Romania
Russia
Rwanda
St. Kitts and Nevis
St. Lucia
St. Vincent and The Grenadines
Samoa
San Marino
Sao Tome and Principe
Saudi Arabia
Senegal
Serbia
Seychelles
Sierra Leone
Singapore
Slovakia
Slovenia
Solomon Islands
Somalia
South Africa
South Korea
South Sudan
Spain
Sri Lanka
Sudan
Suriname
Swaziland
Sweden
Switzerland
Syria
Taiwan
Tajikistan
Tanzania
Thailand
Timor-Leste
Togo
Tonga
Trinidad and Tobago
Tunisia
Turkey
Turkmenistan
Tuvalu
Uganda
Ukraine
United Arab Emirates
UK (United Kingdom)
USA (United States of America)
Uruguay
Uzbekistan
Vanuatu
Vatican City (Holy See)
Venezuela
Vietnam
Yemen
Zambia
Zimbabwe

My revisions, with my compliments.

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

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