The argument is that our tariffs on Mexico will cause them to inflate their prices. If so, Americans will turn away from goods produced there or elsewhere which will encourage Americans who could then compete to manufacture.
What are you willing to give up for the “best price”. Because currently we’re giving up our country.
I would prefer $5 lettuce or growing it myself than using what is close to slave labor for it.
Having lived in Europe, I feel they do clothing better than we do. Americans tend to buy a huge closet full of cheap clothing. Europeans tend to buy better made, more quality materials and wear the items much more. There is no rule that you have to be in different clothing every day. If the item is clean, even the wealthiest will wear it again, no problem. They buy fewer clothes, much fewer, each season and wear them out. This is why they often are much more currently dressed. They have small wooden wardrobes with a few seasonal outfits in it and that is it. Americans over consume. If we limited the huge piles of clothing we buy, we could afford to spend more for American made.
The argument makes no sense for reasons I have explained. A tariff is us shooting ourselves in the foot. Mexico need not do the same thing.
What are you willing to give up for the “best price”. Because currently we’re giving up our country.
Who is taking away our country? Mexico? NO!! It is the the federal government. Why are businesses fleeing from America? Is it because of Mexico? NO!! It is because of the federal government.
Business rightly look for the most favorable environment to do business in which means finding where is the lowest cost environment. COST is the whole issue with business and the federal government continues to drive business costs through the roof. The reason businesses are fleeing the country is because of high federal taxes, federal minimum wage, suffocating dead-end federal regulations, and federal protection of unions. Tariffs do NOTHING to address these root causes and in fact make matters worse. Government's interference in the economy to "fix" an economic problem government caused in the first place always make matters worse.
Government causes the problem and then asks what how much quality of life are YOU willing to give up for government to interfere even more with the economy they themselves have screwed up in the first place. The answer is, No I am unwilling to give up my quality of life - it is way past time for government to give up government's quality of life.
The “TPP” car is a nightmare. Chicom parts, assembled in Mexico. Bye bye US Auto industry. Must be all kinds of crony capitalist goodies like that in the 5,000 pages of TPP. Only Trump can stop it.