Americas freedom is tied to her economic independence Alexander Hamilton wrote: "Not only the wealth, but the independence and security of a country, appear to be materially connected with the prosperity of manufactures. Every nation...ought to endeavor to posses within itself all the essentials of a national supply. These comprise the means of subsistence, habitation, clothing and defense." Americas political independence, Hamilton was saying, could not survive without economic independence. AMERICA FIRST
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There's no such thing as an economically independent economy. Consider a minute how a small business might operate, for the sake of presentation lets say a pizza shop. The pizza shop prepares and delivers the pizzas, but the pizza shop is not completely self reliant. Chances are the pizza shop does not grow their own tomatoes to prepare the sauces, and they don't milk their own cows to prepare the cheeses, they also don't produce their own cardboard boxes for their deliveries. What they actually do is purchase their ingredients and their boxes from other companies. There's little the government can do to make the pizza shop more self reliant, they could implement trade taxes on the ingredients and boxes that the pizza shop purchases from other businesses, but this would in way make it cheaper for the business to produce their own goods, it would only increase the expenses of buying goods from other companies. The best thing the government can do to help the pizza shop is actually to lower the cost of running their business, not increasing it. To attempt to make the pizza shop more self reliant by making it more expensive for them to purchase from foreign sources is completely counterproductive The same thing is true on a macro level, just as no business is completely self reliant, no economy is completely independent. The best thing the government can do to help the economy is to make running a business more affordable in the US. The best way to do this is actually to open up trade with foreign countries. Historically speaking there have only been two kinds of countries that have been able to prosper, those with regional unity, and those with economic unity. There are plenty of examples of small city state nations being able to prosper in the modern world, but all of these nations have one thing in common. Whether it is Singapore, Hong Kong, or Macau, they are all trade havens There is no modern world example of a nation, big or small, being able to prosper under a protectionist economy. If you take a look at the most prosperous economies in the world today, they are all very much involved in international trade. This is a capitalist theory that even socialist nations have come to realize is true, that they cannot prosper without reducing the cost of trade with foreign nations. No respected economist advocates for economic independence. As American economist Henry George once said, in times of war we blockade our enemies in order to prevent them from getting goods from us, in times of peace we do to ourselves with tariffs what we do to our enemies in times of war.
The way it worked in America for 200 years; We grew the crops and raised the cattle, hogs, poultry to feed America. What surplus was exported. We grew cotton and raised sheep for their wool to cloth Americans. What surplus was exported. We exploited our natural resources (iron ore, lumber. coal, copper, etc.) to fuel our industries. What surpluses were exported. We produced our arms to arm our military and to uphold the Second Amendment. We built our own ships to conduct international trade. America no longer has a maritime fleet. America use to produce what it needed. Today we are dependent on multi national corporation. globalization !!! Why ??? The foreign oligarchies ( Trilateral Commission, Bilderberg Group, ) etc. What use to be produced and manufactured in America, the surplus was exported. What America couldn't produce or natural resources America lacked, we imported. It worked for over 200 years.
