We can all agree that forced labor is unacceptable. But so are a lot of other things like the current federal minimum wage. What does Oren propose for a federal minimum wage? Should it be high enough that we do not have employees of major corporations on food stamps and Medicare?
I would hope that contracts with Japanese and Korean shipyards is seen as a short term expedient. Our navy is desperately in need of hulls in the water and what is left of the industry can't deliver in the short term. So let's turn to allies while we get shipyards built. Then reshoring becomes feasible.
"...Section 307 of the Tariff Act of 1930 bars the importation of goods made with convict or forced labor"
It would totally suck for Apple if this were actually enforced. Pretty sure those Foxconn factories with the suicide safety nets would qualify. Never mind decades of Nike shoes, etc. The virtue signaling Left are the first to fall in line behind shaming campaigns when it's fashionable. And the first to step out of line as soon as The Next Thing hits their iPhones.
Just keep the shipping containers of cheap goods flowing in, thank you.
If you think 60 of our biggest trading partners (including Canada and the EU) are doing less than the US to prevent forced labor I have a bridge to sell you.
This is exactly why the Corporate RICO Hammer matters stop letting companies off the hook for exploiting illegal labor. Prosecute them like the organized crime operations they are, seize their assets, and pair that with tariffs hitting the foreign forced labor supply chain on the other end. You can’t fix one side without fixing both
Didn't Joepa's May job growth figures all four years exceed this year? Is this really the standard? Oren forgot to mention that wage growth declined to a five year low, falling further behind the pace of Don’s inflation.
And, if Don's taco tariffs are so doggone amazing, why doesn't he simply ask his captive Congress to authorize them as the constitution requires, which also makes them permanent, rather than flailing with fake, ever changing rationale?
We can all agree that forced labor is unacceptable. But so are a lot of other things like the current federal minimum wage. What does Oren propose for a federal minimum wage? Should it be high enough that we do not have employees of major corporations on food stamps and Medicare?
I would hope that contracts with Japanese and Korean shipyards is seen as a short term expedient. Our navy is desperately in need of hulls in the water and what is left of the industry can't deliver in the short term. So let's turn to allies while we get shipyards built. Then reshoring becomes feasible.
"...Section 307 of the Tariff Act of 1930 bars the importation of goods made with convict or forced labor"
It would totally suck for Apple if this were actually enforced. Pretty sure those Foxconn factories with the suicide safety nets would qualify. Never mind decades of Nike shoes, etc. The virtue signaling Left are the first to fall in line behind shaming campaigns when it's fashionable. And the first to step out of line as soon as The Next Thing hits their iPhones.
Just keep the shipping containers of cheap goods flowing in, thank you.
If you think 60 of our biggest trading partners (including Canada and the EU) are doing less than the US to prevent forced labor I have a bridge to sell you.
Yep 😁
This is exactly why the Corporate RICO Hammer matters stop letting companies off the hook for exploiting illegal labor. Prosecute them like the organized crime operations they are, seize their assets, and pair that with tariffs hitting the foreign forced labor supply chain on the other end. You can’t fix one side without fixing both
Many people would like a durable consensus on tariffs but having a capricious and arbitrary president in charge ain’t the way to get it! 😎
"The unemployment rate held steady at 4.3%, also a very healthy figure". Baloney. A healthy unemployment rate is 3%. More than that is bad news.
Didn't Joepa's May job growth figures all four years exceed this year? Is this really the standard? Oren forgot to mention that wage growth declined to a five year low, falling further behind the pace of Don’s inflation.
And, if Don's taco tariffs are so doggone amazing, why doesn't he simply ask his captive Congress to authorize them as the constitution requires, which also makes them permanent, rather than flailing with fake, ever changing rationale?