Nafta Protectionism

Since there was debt because of the war, the economy was already very bad in Britain – therefore they taxed the colonies. When the colonies started boycotting British products and threatened to stop trading with them all together, it was successful because Britain’s economy wasn’t strong enough to handle those things. The merchants in Britain couldn’t afford to have trade with America end. If the British merchants were hurt, this would thus hurt The economy as a whole in Britain. In later decades, in the War of 1812, America would try to stop trade with Britain again using a method called embargo, which would not be effective because they did not have the debt that the War had caused.

Two thirds of the US support higher taxes on the wealthy and a higher minimum wage as ways to narrow the wealth gap. The upper class have enough money to pay as much as they tax the lower and middle class. Poor people pay more taxes so the more they pay, the poorer they get. Corporations are getting bigger

(Janda 332) The issue is brought to attention a lot by protestors who want the government to give jobs to U.S. citizens rather than handing them off to foreign countries for a cheaper price. The American public doesn’t take into account that the relations we build with the trade consumers of the U.S. can have a dynamic effect when it comes to future endeavors. One of the most crucial assignments our president has as a world leader is crisis management. Foreign aid is one crisis that has been one of the biggest problems associated with the downfall of the American economy. The budget alone in 2011,

01 Mar. 2016. The American Action Forum believes that raising the minimum wage can do more harm than good and hurt the people it’s supposed to help. Job loss in the millions would happen if the wage was raised from $7.25 to $15. People in poverty before the increase would have trouble finding jobs because companies would have to have less positions to counter the wage raise.

Kennedy says in his news conference," If this rise in the cost of steel is imitated by the rest of the industry, instead of rescinded, it would increase the cost of homes, autos, appliances, and most other items for every American family. It would increase the cost of machinery and tools to every American businessman and farmer. It would seriously handicap our efforts to prevent an inflationary spiral from eating up the pensions of our older citizens, and our new gains in purchasing power"(line 23-31) This shows that when the decline of the companies it will seriously handicap the American people due to the large increase in prices. This is also shown in, "And it would surely handicap our efforts to induce other industries and unions adopt responsible price and wage policies"(line 43-45) This shows that it would seriously hurt Americans. Kennedy says more about how the prices are going to have a devastating increase in price, which is going to lead to competition in foreign markets as people are not going to buy our products if they are more expensive than other countries, this is shown in "how more efficiency and better prices could be obtained, reducing prices in this industry in recognition of lower costs, their unusually good labor contract, their foreign competition and their increase in production and profits

Economic recession in 1960s to 1980s are still like the yesterday’s nightmare for most people in early twentieth century. During this period, , a big trade deficit was caused because more foreign goods floated into US market than capital floated from the US to developing countries. This phenomenon made the economy inside the US face a hard time. Meanwhile, American citizens began to pursue “one of the country’s most cherished myths, the American Dream-a fantasy of social mobility enabled by America’s putative rejection of the aristoristocratic heirarchy structuring the Old World societies of our ancestors”(Deitchman). Lots of people wanted to go from lower class to upper class in order to escape from the life which was becoming harder and harder.

In the past three years, many politicians and labor unions have been pushing for an increase in minimum wage. Minimum wage is the lowest set wage by a law of a government body. An increase in minimum will benefit some people, and hurt others. An increase in minimum wage will cause benefit in the short run but will be very damaging to the economy in the long run. There should not be an increase in minimum wage because it is unhealthy to the economy in the long run and it will be the major cause of job loss, increase in inflation, competition, and the price level of goods and services.

If they were to crash and they have insurance, their rates would go higher than what they are paying for or they have a chance to completely drop their insurance which no one wants, which will remind them to be more focus. My second reasons is that it would help the economy more if driving with a hand-held device was illegal. The government loses billions of dollars

Finally, cigarette consumption falls, saving 100,000 lives as stated in the article. Also, in the long run there is more time to explore for possible alternatives. In conclusion, in the long term, the desired outcome of fewer smokers in California will be achieved as a result of the government imposing higher taxes on cigarettes. Consumers as stakeholders will brace the large effects as the burden of tax will be higher and cigarettes will be much more expensive due to inelastic

This factor has not only economic drawbacks but social problems are increasing at the same time (Kennickel, 2003). It leads to crimes and unsafety. Wealth inequality in America is increasing specially after the Great Recession of 2008 (Kenworthy & Smeeding, 2013; Allegretto, 2011). “The wealthiest 1% of U.S. households had net worth that was 225 times greater than the median or typical household’s net worth in 2009” (Allegretto, 2011). John Slater (2015) suggests that top 1% will gain more wealth than bottom 99% in 2016 if the government doesn’t take any measures to prevent it.

One of the reasons that Ted should be elected as the new president is that now is the time for developing the economy, not expanding the size of welfare . Efforts of Obama’s policies to try to improve the welfare of the country only caused damaging consequences. We can see this in ‘Obamacare’, which is the biggest welfare and healthcare policy made by the Obama administration. The government has argued that by enacting this law, people will get more income and more people will get employed. The statistics show that there is a 1.5~2% decrease in working hours and 0.5~1.0% decrease in compensation per hour (Facing up to Obamacare’s Flaws).

In theory this sounds like a great idea but it would require a large tax increase that most successful people in America at the time would most likely not want to pay. They would raise the idea of Social Darwinism once America is successful and question why their money they earned is going to the unsuccessful. He has the idea that the government should limit one person’s wealth to 50 million dollars. This cap may seem large to the average citizen but to people that had massive amounts of money like the Rockefeller family this would merely be a fraction of their

Without fracking, the price of gas would have a drastic raise from $3.25 to $11 per gallon, so consumers would have to pay about $130 or more to refill their gas tank. Fracking has a bad reputation of polluting the environment that we live in. The government should allow hydraulic fracking to continue only if fracking companies agree to the following. Transporting fuel from foreign countries require a lot of money, the government should spend the money on better things like paying people to work of public projects. David Morris, PhD, Vice President of the institute for Local Self-Reliance states that the expenditures for our transportation fleets are about hundreds of billions of dollars.

Second, Reagan cut taxes for corporations and the wealthy-class. The theory of Reaganomics is tax relief for the rich would enable them to spend more money, save money in banks, and make investments. The additional spending from the rich, was supposed to help stimulate the economy and create new jobs. However, the opposite occurred and America suffered a deep recession in 1981-1982. In addition, the high interest rates caused the value of the dollar to rise on the international exchange market, thus American exports decreased and imports increased.

For example, the United States assimilates their assets and compromises with foreign nations to enable the U.S to transfer their funds into offshore accounts (Jeffers 99). Furthermore, government corporations stay under the radar and avoid paying their federal income tax because they negotiate with foreign nations. Since, the 1980’s financial crisis, citizens in the U.S were galvanized under a common theme that “we are the 99%” (Yates 11). This statement reveals that individuals desired to expose corporations for not paying their income taxes. When analyzing movements in today’s society such as: US Uncut and Occupy Wall Street individuals believed that the government is evil.