Today Presidential candidate Ron Paul has brought to attention the W.T.O. is asking the U.S. Congress to raise taxes on certain corporations. The CNN report continues on to say that Rep. Paul was quoted saying "I support this notion of protecting sovereignty by getting out of the United Nations". While I do support Mr. Paul in the fact that no organization should have control over how much the U.S. taxes its corporations, I am in complete disagreement with leaving the United Nations. This two part issue is one of sovereignty and constitutionality.
The reason that this country went through a revolutionary war was so that it could have sovereignty. Many lives were lost in that war and in the many that have followed to protect our nation’s sovereignty and the rights promised to its citizens through the constitution. By having an organization tell the United States to tax its corporations more so that their countries corporations have a better chance will in the long run lead to the weakening if not collapse of our economic system. On corporate taxing the U.S. should answer to no one, if those countries want to give their companies a better shot at success then they can increase their tariffs on U.S. goods and we can do the same right back sinking many of the companies in their country that we import goods from.
The idea of free trade works both ways, the United States has a huge consumer base with immense buying power and the fact that we import goods helps smaller countries out. At the same time it costs U.S. jobs because the same goods could have been made here. However the loss of jobs means less income and the imported goods cost less so now instead of paying more on a higher salary for U.S. goods our workers are now paying less on a lower salary for imported goods.
A better system I believe would be for the U.S. to automate its factory’s so goods are still produced here for consumer’s here at a reasonable price and at the same time continue to set up overseas production to provide the same product to consumers there. In the end U.S. companies would make more money and instead of laying off all workers by closing a factory now by automating a factory positions open for computer technicians to run said equipment. This system would cause U.S. companies to have higher production capabilities and make more money as well as create more of a demand for educated workers as opposed to uneducated workers.
The idea of leaving the UN however is as far as I am concerned very foolish. Despite problems with the UN and its renowned hypocrisy and ineffectuality like any democratic body it is open for change. When the United States government has a problem we do not just dissolve it and make a new one, we fix the problems with the old one. The U.N. provides mediated discussion between countries and although that may not seem important, the first step to war is the end of diplomacy.
The idea of free trade works both ways, the United States has a huge consumer base with immense buying power and the fact that we import goods helps smaller countries out. At the same time it costs U.S. jobs because the same goods could have been made here. However the loss of jobs means less income and the imported goods cost less so now instead of paying more on a higher salary for U.S. goods our workers are now paying less on a lower salary for imported goods.
A better system I believe would be for the U.S. to automate its factory’s so goods are still produced here for consumer’s here at a reasonable price and at the same time continue to set up overseas production to provide the same product to consumers there. In the end U.S. companies would make more money and instead of laying off all workers by closing a factory now by automating a factory positions open for computer technicians to run said equipment. This system would cause U.S. companies to have higher production capabilities and make more money as well as create more of a demand for educated workers as opposed to uneducated workers.
The idea of leaving the UN however is as far as I am concerned very foolish. Despite problems with the UN and its renowned hypocrisy and ineffectuality like any democratic body it is open for change. When the United States government has a problem we do not just dissolve it and make a new one, we fix the problems with the old one. The U.N. provides mediated discussion between countries and although that may not seem important, the first step to war is the end of diplomacy.
2 comments:
People in America who say we should leave the UN remind me of kids who can't share their toys. Instead of being civil and resolving the situation, they just want to pack up their stuff and go home to play in their own house by themselves.
In America's defense, the other members of the UN pulling crap like telling us to increase our own taxes so their businesses can stay competitive is just plain stupid. If you can't stay competitive it is your own fault. Make a better product, make things cheaper, get more innovative. Making tariffs isn't a good idea either, no matter who you are. In the long run a tariff hurts everyone.
There is no point in us staying in the U.N. We don't listen to it anyways (look at all the help we're getting in the Iraq War). I also feel the U.N. emasculates us. Why should we have to go ask daddy for permission to do something? The U.N. interests are rarely our interests.
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