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To: P-Marlowe
And if you didn't have to pay any income tax, you'd be able to afford the stuff we make in the United States.

Only if your tariff approaches 100%, maybe more. And who are the U.S. manufacturers of consumer electronics we will be buying from?

70 posted on 08/30/2015 7:49:39 AM PDT by DoodleDawg
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To: DoodleDawg
And who are the U.S. manufacturers of consumer electronics we will be buying from?

If you tax it, they will come.

Most of those computer electronics are built by robots in Thailand. The biggest cost is R&D and packaging. If there were an incentive to make that stuff here, the robots would be here. We have an overabundance of packagers working at McDonalds right now. This would free up the fast food industry for use by high school teens like it was 40 years ago.

Admit it, if you didn't have to pay income tax, you could afford to pay double for everything you purchase from foreign countries.

FWIW, there is no such thing as "Free Trade". But right now what we don't have is "Fair Trade". America is screwed by everyone. We just bend over and let it happen. In the meantime our middle class is working for lower wages and paying higher taxes. Today's middle class blue collar or even white collar worker can never expect to retire in comfort.

74 posted on 08/30/2015 9:19:53 AM PDT by P-Marlowe (Trump - because sometimes you need a big @$$hole to eliminate all the cr@p.)
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