[Blood of Tyrants]

Are you just dense? Yes, I would pay higher prices to keep Americans working rather than some Chinese in a foreign sweatshop.

[Mase]

You can pay higher prices then, and you’ll be very lonely. As I said, more than 140 million Americans shop at Wal-Mart every week. It appears that enthusiasm for your solution doesn’t exist. But you keep paying more anyway. The rest of us will continue to save our money so that we can buy more and save more.

[jboot]

Frankly, some of the price points are so low as to be absurd. I bought my first suit in 1984. It was a Jos. A, Banks suit, locally made. It cost me $100, which made my wallet cry "Uncle" at the time. But in 1984 it was an inexpensive suit. Better-quality suits went for twice as much, even then.

The same Jos. A. Banks now routinely advertises "any two suits in our store for $179!" So without adjusting for the considerable inflation in the interim, the Jos. A. Banks price point of 2013 is as much as 10% BELOW the price point of 1984. This isn't market forces at work. It is the result of the market being bypassed by companies employing slave labor.

[expat_panama]

What good are higher prices if you don't have a job?

OK, sure it sounds like a dumbass stupid thing to ask but the point is that we start with the reality that lower costs are good and higher costs are bad.  My bet is that you got no argument there, and what you're really pushing is you want the rest of us to pay higher import taxes and you're disappointed that we don't want to.

fwiw, the problem is that you've been doing a poor job of convincing us while the rest of us have seen how tax cut's help America and tax'n'spending hurts America.