Stop Giving Our Jobs Away with Free Trade - Save Our Jobs by Repealing NAFTA
Free trade will send your job to Mexico. Do you realize that without unions and tariffs to protect us American
workers would still be working for 11 cents a day like a Chinese coolie? It took 100 years of union activity to
pass labor laws that require an American factory to pay $5.15 minimum wage and social security. When congress passed the
North American Free Trade Act, they threw all that away because they eliminated tariffs on imports from Mexico. After
NAFTA American factories could move to Mexico and no longer have to pay a tariff on goods they import to the US. Naturally
thousands of our jobs moved to Mexico because once the factories were there, they no longer had to pay social security
and the minimum wage is what 30 cents a day.
If you still think Democrats stand up for the working man, I would like to remind you that NAFTA was passed with the support
of the majority of your congressmen and could not have passed without the support of the Democrats. NAFTA may have cost American
workers millions of jobs that went to Mexico and is without a doubt the single most anti union piece of legislation ever
passed by the US congress. When NAFTA was passed American business that is labor intensive had three choices: 1. Declare bankruptcy.
2. Go out of business. 3. Move their factory to Mexico. The real cost doing business left no alternative. Because about
80% of the cost of doing business in an American factory that is labor intensive is mandated by government law. Labor laws
require an American factory to pay minimum wage of $5.15 plus social security tax of 7.65% from the worker and from the employer
plus OSHA, plus environmental restrictions, etc. In Mexico they don't have to pay these costs.
Suppose George the second passed a law that allowed Texas to do to American workers what NAFTA allow Mexico to do? All
the factories would move to Texas because the cost of doing business would be less in Texas. That would be free trade - free of
any moral restrictions or any legal restrictions but it would hardly be fair trade. Fair trade would be to equalize the cost
imposed by government so it would be the same in Texas as in any other state. In fact, the equal protection clause of the 14th
amendment requires no special privileges ge given to any one state over another. IT WOULD LITERALLY BE A CRIMINAL ACT TO GIVE
TO TEXAS OR ANY OTHER STATE WHAT NAFTA GIVES TO MEXICO.
As congressman, I will save jobs by repealing NAFTA and proposing tariff on all imported goods equal to the burden placed on
American business by the US government. IE: If government regulations (minimum wage, social security tax, etc.) add $10 to
the cost of a pair of shoes or $100 to the cost of a ton of steel, the tariff would $10 on a pair of shoes and $100 on a ton of
steel. This is fair trade where American business and foreign business is on a level playing field. Otherwise, they won't
import a tomale from Mexico.
