[Number57]

I wholly agree with the tariffs. We need to keep American products competitive, and that is simply impossible when competing with countries employing slave labor. If anything, those price hikes aren't high enough.

[neutrino]

I wholly agree with the tariffs. We need to keep American products competitive, and that is simply impossible when competing with countries employing slave labor. If anything, those price hikes aren't high enough.

Well said. Economic patriotism demands that we protect American jobs.

[TBP]

I wholly agree with the tariffs.

I usually don't, as I'm a free trader, but in this case, national security takes precedence. We must not fund those who seek to attack us.

[servantboy777]

"I wholly agree with the tariffs. We need to keep American products competitive"

I as well. There is no way the American worker can compete with countries such as China. Their labor cost are rock bottom, they provide little if any benefits such as the American worker enjoys.

But what the heck, who needs health care, retirement savings, vacation. The high tech corporation I am employed has frozen wages for years, cut pensions, cut health benefits, and the ol cloud of layoff looms year after year.

We need our congress to help the American worker, restore our manufacturing base and put tariffs on products produced at dirt cheap labor.

[newzjunkey]

Ridiculous. You can already avoid buying Chinese made goods. You cannot, however, totally avoid items with Chinese parts. And good luck finding the same item made in the USA. We simply don't make a lot of things anymore. Our unionize labor demands too much to produce certain products at prices consumers are willing to accept. While Wal-Mart can be said to have helped people's personal standards of living by stretching their dollars, it's also has harmed local businesses in many communities. Yes you have to compete or exit the market but some communities very fabric has been dramatically altered by a Wal-Mart store going up.

One thing I would like is to see Wal-Mart push prices down in places like Southern California where supposed competators (I'm thinking grocery stores as an example) now keep things artificially higher than in other markets.

[dr_who_2]

Is "slave labor" in Pakistan/India/Bangladesh killing the textile industry? Is "slave labor" in Mexico the reason why Philco and Zenith aren't big US television manufacturers anymore? "Slave labor" is a smoke screen, just like the "Anglo-Saxon economic model" is in a certain European country. Americans are not the only people in the world who can make televisions and socks that many of these same Americans will be willing to buy. That's a fact of life. Different people may like different tariffs, often depending on their line of work, but it's not much different from government spending. One group benefits while everyone else gets screwed.

[Wolfie]

If anything, those price hikes aren't high enough.

If Corporate America can't import cheap crap from the Far East tariff free, then they'll have to raise American wages to a) afford their products, or b) make their products here. And of course, that means the CEO only earns millions instead of tens of millions. Can't have that.

[antaresequity]

I wholly agree with the tariffs. We need to keep American products competitive,

Do you realize how utterly ironic in an appalling sense your comment is?

You agree with Tariffs to keep American products competitive?

That is the height of ridiculous absurdity.

I think what you meant to say was: American products are so vastly uncompetitive, that we should slap tariffs on imported goods so that Joe MetalStamper can keep making 40 $/hr wages plus meds and pension...

What you really meant to say was: "I agree with tariffs; lets tax all imported goods and drive up the cost for American consumers and discourage the emerging global economy from doing business with us. This will create American jobs and encourage third world $hit holes to pay their labor force more.

What the hell are you smoking?

[JABBERBONK]

Slave labor???..the best selling car in Beijing is the VW passat, adv. price $31,000.00..and the Chinese govt. just passed a luxury tax on big cars , limos and yachts which will hurt the 100,000 millionaires in Beijing. Buick can't build cars fast enough in China, and John Deere is on their 5 th plant there..tariffs are stupid, they are a tax on consumers, China will simply retaliate, and why should consumers buy American when GM, Ford, and Chrysler don't?

[FreedomCalls]

>>The Durabrand 10-inch portable DVD player available at Wal-Mart retails for $199.94. A group of senators would like to raise the price to $254.67.

>I wholly agree with the tariffs. We need to keep American products competitive

Pray tell, exactly where can I purchase a DVD player made in the U.S.? There are no U.S DVD-player factories to protect.

[tcrlaf]

*** We need to keep American products competitive***

Then stop the over-taxation, over-unionization, over-regulation, unlimited Civil Liability, and inane Enviro regs that sent the work overseas IN THE FIRST PLACE!!!!!!!!

HELLO!!!!!!
Planet Earth Calling!!!

Why complain about tarriffs, when it has NOTHING to do with why we lost the jobs IN THE FIRST PLACE!

Protectionism will bring on the NEXT Great Depression, and the chaos will ensure DEM power for DECADES to come.......

[The_Media_never_lie]

Some high quality items are just too cheap. Consumers will not respect items that are priced too low and will treat them as disposibles. I have seen several examples of this recently.