New Rules for Trading Nations

The top obligation for political and government leaders should be to create the conditions necessary for all citizens to be able to earn a living and support their families at a level that rewards their labor and incentivizes them to want to work.  Minimum wage DOES NOT adequately reward a worker, especially when menial labor generally requires the most effort in the worst conditions.  Any politician that fails to secure economic opportunity should be immediately kicked out of office.

All nations require a balance of supply and demand.  If production is done in a different country, the ability of domestic workers to consume declines which results in economic imballance.  NO nation should be allowed to rely on another nation to consume the over-production of its workers.

The consumption/demand (the market) of a nation belongs to the citizens that create that market.  No politician should be allowed to give away access to the national market to foreign suppliers without the approval of the majority of citizens.

Politicians should not be allowed to give away access to domestic markets for the sake of international diplomacy or to promote 'economic development' in a foreign nation at the expense of domestic workers.  American jobs belong to the people, not the government.

Trade agreements are 'treaties', not 'pacts' or 'deals' or 'agreements'.  They should only be made with the direct approval of the national Congress or Parliament who are not allowed to pass that Right to any other authority.

No nation should make any trade treaty that infringes on the nation's ability to have laws that serve the national good.  Current Free Trade agreements are being used to force nations to abrogate their environmental, labor and other laws.   

Companies should only be allowed to have access to a national market if they comply with rules that first and foremost benefit the national good, not just the good of an individual company or industry.  They should be required to produce goods and services using the workers that create the market demand. 

Under no circumstances should any company be allowed to import workers using the claim that no adequately skilled workers are available from the domestic market.  This rule will force employers to seek out workers and help to train and educate them up to a satisfactory level.  Any company that complains should be permanently barred from the national market.  If they threaten to move offshore, FINE, let the bastards leave and good riddance.  They're traitors and we don't need them trying to influence our political leaders.

Foreign investors should not be allowed to buy government bonds from any nation other than those of their home country.  Allowing foreign investment distorts domestic interest rates.  (The trade imbalance between the US and China should have forced up interest rates in the US but China's surplus was invested in US bonds so the Federal Reserve lost the ability to control inflation by raising rates)

It is essential for each nation to maintain the ability to provide the essential goods and services needed by its citizens WITHOUT relying on foreign sources, especially regarding food and industrial products essential for the national defense.

International trade must be managed by each nation to benefit its own citizens.  There will never be 'Free Trade' because most nations aren't ruled by morons that would believe in such insanity.  To ask a nation to abrogate its own well-being for the sake of foreign trade is ridiculous.

Japan and Germany have never been fair in the trade relationship with the United States.  Their products and services should be barred from the US market for at least 25 years to force them to develop the domestic consumption of their own citizens.  The whole world relies on the United States as a market for their national over-production.  This should stop immediately.

No nation should be permitted to rely on another nation to provide jobs for its citizens.  Mexico should be forced to create job opportunities for its own citizens.  Mexico should not be able to receive funds from Mexicans working in the United States to subsidize its own economy.

Companies in the United States should not be allowed to use cheap foreign labor to work inside the United States; if, as a result, they can't compete with foreign producers maybe they should support tariffs to manage trade. 

Politicians should not make trade deals that force their taxpayers to fund inspections of products coming from foreign manufacturers.  All imports should be inspected as they enter the US and inspection costs should be paid by the importer.  Every incoming box 2 X 2 X 2 or larger should be individually inspected to prevent a nuclear bomb from being shipped into the US.  If the costs are prohibitive, don't import.

US corporations constantly whine about American regulations and corporate taxes; note that they wouldn't think of doing the same with the Chinese government.  These companies should be invted to leave and then barred from selling into the US market.

Wall Street investment Banks are threatening to move offshore if they are forced to pay fair taxes equivalent to ordinary American workers; good, let them leave.  We'd be better off without the filthy bastards.