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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I worked for a printer/publisher. Tariffs on Red Chinese exports would be attractive to many of them.


3 posted on 10/05/2016 7:08:46 PM PDT by Dr. Sivana (There is no salvation in politics.)
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To: Dr. Sivana

A friend of mines family owns a large commercial printer in Illinois (once we were the printing capitol of the world), and EPA regulations and paper tariffs have dramatically hurt his business over the last 20 years.

They once employed over 1,000 people, now down to around 100 I think.

He explained that it was cheaper in many cases to have a large print run done in China or Mexico, have it SHIPPED here on ocean cargo (even when oil prices were at the top) than it would be for him to print the job right here in the states (and they are a non-union shop).

In the end though, his biggest gripe is the EPA. At first, they were all forced to put in catalytic afterburners for emissions, which put out cleaner air than that of what they were taking in. Now he says they have to pay by the cubic ton of all air they emit (even though it is cleaner than the air they take in from the surrounding streets). He just says it kills them and any profit margins.


12 posted on 10/05/2016 8:16:32 PM PDT by Bubba Gump Shrimp (A Liberal is someone who cannot accept that there is a Law of Unintended Consequences)
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