Posted on 09/01/2019 11:13:28 AM PDT by SilvieWaldorfMD
For me, I do not care where a product is made per se. But, knowing that China games the system as well as all the intellectual property theft bothers me.
It is the government's choice (people's choice really.. who voted in the government) when the government represents people who for all practical purposes are not allowed to sell in China
Rural King has the same 50 lb. bags for less than at Walmart.
Nobody's ever heard of it.
My grandkids have never gotten over....You didn’t have a TV??
“You might try a flea-market of secondhand stuff.”
True. Thrift shops are some of the “funnest” places to shop.
Check out Tractor Supply or a local farm supply store.
You need to outsmart the government. Protective tariffs though not unconstitutional, are not helpful although they appear to be to many or most.
First of all, tariffs are a tax on the American consumer. The way tariffs work is the government forces raised prices on targeted incoming goods. It is a form of wage and price control but in this case forcing higher prices.
You might say, “Well that’s not a tax on the consumer”, but effectively it is. The payment of the tariff-hiked money comes out of the consumer’s pocket and goes nowhere but into the government’s pocket.
So then you might say, “Well they don’t have to buy those goods.” But now government is forcing artificially high prices on the market place on goods the consumer ordinarily wants. So now, the consumer is forced to either pay more for what he wants or choose an often lower quality item he would ordinarily not get.
Tariffs force consumers to choose a lower quality:price item allowing lower quality:price products (usually American special-interest products bound by government policies of anti-business regulations, unions, and taxes) to succeed. The consumer loses and special interests win.
Generally, current demand is the level of the current expected standard of living. As always and in this case in particular, government interference in the marketplace (in this case tariffs) lowers the standard of living.
In the meantime, tariffs do nothing to solve the underlying root causes of inferior U.S. products because those underlying problems (anti-business regulations, unions, and taxes) are caused by the same government that is now putting another layer of interference into the marketplace.
And what makes it worse is many think these government measures are solving our long-term root causes. But again as usual, the government will put off what is REALLY needed to fix the root causes which would be GET GOVERNMENT OUT OF THE MARKETPLACE AND QUIT INTERFERING WITH FREE ENTERPRISE.
Based on your rant, you would be happier shopping at the Nordstrom or Saks Fifth Avenue or Neiman Marcus stores closer to you. They have everything you need..........LOL!
How did you live without a cell phone, Papa?
I tell them about the rotary dial phone my parents had in the front hallway and they look at me like I'm from another planet.
At 72, in their eyes, I suppose I am from another world entirely.
They seem to all be in the western part of VA, the closest one is 95 miles in Front Royal.
A few years ago my family and I were at a Subway Sandwich shop and tried to pay by a traveler’s check. We had already filled in the Pay to and wrote Subway. No one in the store had seen or heard of a traveler’s check let alone how it works. They finally called a regional manager who told them to cash it and give us the change.
Now when we travel we use prepaid debit cards.
Tell ‘am about party lines. Fun times...
“it should be a buyer’s choice”
We don’t have to allow importations at all. If you want to buy from China and screw over your fellow Americans then go live there.
Tractor Supply we do have around here, I’ll check them out.
We had a 2 party phone. That was fun.
Ahhh... grasshoppa, you are correct but for one teensy weensy tiny little almost insignificant factor. The tariffs are only on one country. Money flows like water. China has been raised via tariffs and the capital is rapidly flowing out to the lowlands in SE Asia and some even over here. I am 100% a free trader. China does not trade freely and changing their elevation (cost) so as to encourage a flow out of their production market is a very very good thing for us. You are the fool that would sell them the rope they hang us with to quote another rather anti US late commie. If tariffs were not origin based you would be 100% correct but the teensy little thing you overlook makes your position one like Bill Kristal holds: komplett doof.
I agree the quality is terrible. I looked at stuff in Harbor Freight recently. It’s all made in China. It looks like junk.
I’ve just bought a new toilet. It’s a Toto which is a Japanese company; however, the bowl and tank are made in the U.S.A., in their plant in Georgia. I’m trying to buy American for everything. The MSM interviewed merchants this morning who are selling Chinese sneakers and clothes. Big sob stories about how their prices will increase all because of Trump. Too bad. Get American-made stuff and sell that instead.
I do not shop at Walmart except to buy All laundry detergent that I can’t get elsewhere.
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