Topic: China
Slaying the Red Dragon Thoughts on how to revitalize America and overtake Red China as the world's sole economic superpower.by Alexander Massa
(libertarian)
Wednesday, November 25, 2009
China is poised to overtake America as the world's sole superpower. We are now at an incredibly critical point in history, and we are faced with two choices: allow China to overtake us, or retake our place in this world and stand up to the Red Dragon with the same ferocity with which we slayed the Red Bear so many years ago. Of course, I am not a proponent of outright military action against China; I'd much rather prefer waging an economic war against the People's Republic.
Today, China is waging an economic war against us - and they are winning. They effectively own the United States. We appear to be an independent world power, but are we really? We are totally indebted to the Red Chinese, so how could we possibly be truly independent? We need to turn the tables against the Chinese by returning to the eternal principles of the Constitution, which will revitalize our economy and dramatically shrink our national deficit, which is skyrocketing by leaps and bounds.
The first step on the road to economic recovery is to dismantle two institutions, the Federal Reserve, which is as federal as Federal Express, and the income tax, which was a blatanly unconstitutional measure that never should have been enacted. With these two out of the way, our economy will soar. We can further stimulate economic growth by eliminating the corporate tax, which scares many powerful corporations away. So many Americans today complain about the economic malaise we are experiencing, and yet they continue to support liberal (read: socialist) politicians who enact measures which halt economic growth. If we support small government and free markets, our economy will recover and we can regain our status as the world's sole superpower.
We also need to stop buying products from Red China simply because they are cheap. Yes, buying the cheaper product is an integral part of the free market, but buying cheap products from China comes at the expense of our national sovereignty and our national interests. Is saving a little money really worth it? Anyways, most Chinese products are of inferior quality and many contain hazardous materials and ingredients, such as lead paint on childrens' toys.
Once we have done these things, we can then attack China, through economic means, of course, by erecting tarriffs on Chinese-made goods. While we are dependent on China for almost everything we need, they also depend on us to buy their goods. If we won't buy from them, we won't have anything, but their economic will collapse as well. So it is a two way street. If we put a stiff tarriff on Chinese goods, we will still have them, they'll still be fairly cheap, but it will give American manufacturers an edge. It will become cheaper to buy American than it will be to buy Chinese. And the Chinese have no defense against this. What are they going to do, stop trading with us? We give them far too much money for them to do that. So it is a win-win situation. China is weakened, we are strengthened, and as an added bonus, our government will be able to reap massive profits from the tarriffs. This will allow us to significantly lower other taxes that are currently quite high.
If we follow these steps, America can rise like a phoenix from the ashes and regain it's rightful place among the superpowers of the world. Americans must realize that our grip on power is slipping, and we will become a third world country if we don't do something fast. Even if we don't do what I have outlined, we must do something; inactivity is death!
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I love you people, I really do. I love how you lay out an idea so simply, so cleanly, so easily, and just urge everyone to do it, without even possibly thinking of , say, oh, the actual consequences.
Let's do this one by the numbers, shall we?
False understanding number one: "Git rid of the Federal Reserve and them blasted taxes an' th' economy will take off!" -- The corporate tax rate in America is indeed, far too high. 39% or there abouts is the average. It's far higher than many other countries. Yet we also do not have ridiculously high sales taxes to offset the corporate taxes. I'm not exactly sure what benefit we get by dismantling the Federal Reserve - did you know only two countries in the ENTIRE WORLD don't have central banks? (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_central_banks#Countries_without_central_banks) -- but I'm sure that if we get rid of all those pesky taxes, well, companies will flock back, right? Sure .. and who will pay for everything supported by those taxes? Remove Medicare, Medicaid, most of the highway funding, and half the money for the military. Oh, kill income taxes too? We don't need a military, or any of those jobs, or anything related to the tax industry that employes six million people.
Get everyone to stop buying things from China. Yes, this will work spectacularly, especially since we don't have most of the industries anymore and that the cost to build such industries up in America would cost more than... just building them in China. To spell it out for you, even if you raised tarrifs , it would cost a company a lot less to outsource industrial work (where there are no unions, no worries about environmental policies, and wages 5% of what Americans need) than it would cost to build factories from scratch to replace everything we aren't buying from China.
Ignoring reality on everything else -- Did you kind of forget China owns much of our national debt and they can call that in anytime they like? Or that, under your plan, since there is neither income tax nor corporate tax, there's no money for a military to STOP them from simply invading us once we stop buying from them?
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