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As for infastructure, Trump can make waaaaaaaaaay more money over Bernie because Trump is going to put a 35% import tax on anything that comes into the US from a US company. A lot of stuff now comes from places outside the US from US companies. Most of that stuff is not cheap items, like your cars. a 35% import tax on a thing that is expensive as hell to ship is going to make a lot of money + renegotiate all bad deals with other countries to stop trade defacites that will save a bunch of money. Sanders is just gonna rob the rich, that sucks for the people who got rich through hard work and not through cheap ways like family, bankers, wall street etc.
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Okay, a 35% import tax is actually not a good idea. If that came to fruition those companies would leave the United States entirely. Trying to add jobs in factories by trying to force these companies to move their factories back is a waste, because that's not what the United States is good at from a opportunity cost stand point. Why should we build, say, processors if we can get them cheaper from a different county? To add low income jobs and restrict the growth of business, which, if they did grow, would add high income jobs for innovators?
Acting like it's a crime that companies ship work overseas is really not all that smart. If Chinese workers are willing to work for cheaper than ours, let them. Our companies will be able to either A. Sell at lower prices on the home front. Or B. Create more jobs because they are an efficient company. Perhaps both.
Like for example, the IPhone. If you order one online it's shipped from Shenzen, china. Chances are the only American that touches it will be the delivery man.
Yet that is actually a good thing. It's a good thing that American workers don't have to do that kind of work anymore. Physically assembling the iPhone is the easy part. What gives the iPhone it's value is it's unique design and it's sleek and industrial feel. The people making the real money from the iPhone are the innovators who work in Silicon Valley who make the iPhone what it is.
So, trade deficits are not a bad thing at all.
HOWEVER, that doesn't mean I am for Bernie.