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    Trump Administration Predictions

    I have a number of answers here. 1. China is not a hard country to export to, my company sells plenty there despite the retaliatory duties. All you need is a product they want to buy. 2. The government doesn't owe you a living. If somebody chooses not to buy from you, that is your problem...
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    That is not what freedom means. If a foreign government oppresses there own citizens, that does not justify the US government oppressing its citizens. As for the economic question, our standard of living is higher if we trade freely, even if others do not. Freedom does not mean "both ways"...
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    The people in the hotels were there until they received temporary work permits.
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    The whole thing about only deporting aliens who committed crimes was dropped at the beginning of his term. It is easier to deport those do not commit crimes, as they less likely to show up at hearings.
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    Trump just suspended workplace raids against agriculture, restaurants and hospitality. Apparently, he discovered that America needs the workers.
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    Agencies are the executive branch. There is no legal difference between the President abusing his power and the National Park Service abusing their power. It is the President's job to make certain that agencies execute the law.
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    That can certainly be a problem. For example, air traffic control needs to handle all planes in the sky to be effective, so it can't be handled by private purchase. However, there is no need to run it as a government agency, it can be handled by a non-profit corporation financed by mandatory...
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    It is a bit more than passively staying out of the way. The government needs to create the environment that we can improve our standard of living. The point of government spending is to provide services that we can't effectively procure as individuals or corporations.
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    You are saying that we should copy stupid laws from other countries. That goes well with Nautical Gent's view that government should not try to improve our standard of living. You keep on calling yourself a libertarian but you always seem to take anti-liberty positions. Can you explain why...
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    There are number of cases against Trump's illegal tariffs, two of which have already won in lower courts. Such cases are definitely possible.
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    Steve R. (retired), why aren't you working? You are part of the 38%.
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    Because they make these things themselves (or import them from the Far East). Europeans imported $370 billion from the US last year and invested $276 billion in the US. If a foreign country has a stupid law, should we adopt same law?
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    What heavy trade barriers? The US negotiated successfully the lowering of most trade barriers through GATT. If they have trade barriers, that is the opposite of "leaning on us".
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    How is that committing suicide? Exports are the price we pay for imports. Exports only contribute to our standard of living indirectly. Other countries trade barriers lower than standard of living more than ours.
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    Trump Administration Predictions

    In New York City, the building trades were very heavily unionized and violence was used to prevent non-union competition. The unions only admitted white men. The unions were finally forced to admit non-whites. Non-union companies can get permits for any significant construction because the local...
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    I had to buy a new dryer a few years ago. It seems hard to reconcile your "libertarian" bent with your support for Trump's tariffs. A "fair" tariff is very un-libertarian concept. The "fair" tariff is a zero tariff, as there is no economic reason to discriminate against imports. It would be...
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    Need help understanding how to best store and query PDFs and other yearly training documents

    I use Access to store PDF's on a regular basis. I use the attachment data type. You can use VBA to manipulate the attachments. For example, I automatically generate an e-mail with all the attachments for a specific record.
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    You seem very interested in income redistribution. Are you becoming a Bernie bro? There is no evidence of the cycle you described occurring. The native born generally move to other better-paying work.
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    For the most part, the Americans who did these jobs (and their children) have moved on to other higher paying work. My mother was a garment worker in the 1940's and was very happy to move to secretarial work. My wife's cousin's husband started as a bricklayer but ended up as a contractor with...
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    Trump Administration Predictions

    The higher price of washing machines was caused directly by a Trump tariff. https://finance.yahoo.com/news/higher-prices-extra-jobs-lessons-from-trumps-washing-machine-tariffs-185047360.html.
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