TAX ON TRADE WITH LOW-WAGE COUNTRIES
One problem with the Dem 'negotiating' position is that they are not proposing their own compromises.
I have one, for the intractable Senator Grassley, finance committee.
Not only do we 'ship jobs overseas', but we force workers to face foreign, low-wage competition, so that companies do not want to pay benefits, at home, like health care, for American-based workers (why should they, if they can hire someone overseas who doesn't require it?).
To compromise, we can pay for the social net that global competition erases by levying a 'competitiveness tax' on low-cost countries. In most cases, the wages in these countries are so low that the process of 'globalization' will continue apace, despite even a medium-sized tax.
If the good Senator doesn't 'get that', perhaps we can help him along by eliminating the tariffs that protect his good state ... ? I mean, it's hard to entact such taxes; but, hey, in today's America, it's fashionable on the right to ignore the facts, so they may not even care or notice.
Thursday, September 3, 2009
Compromise on Health Care: I am the 'middle'
