I am wondering why you choose to increase tariffs rather than docking fees. If you increase tariffs, then shippers who use the ports around LA will pay more money for the costs you say they are creating; but so will shippers who use the ports of Washington and Oregon and Louisiana and Texas, where they may not have those costs to the same degree you see in California!
Essentially, you are forcing ALL ports to increase the charge on incoming product, regardless of the need of those ports to raise additional capital.
So, if your issue really is the infrastructure costs created by shipping, then wouldn't it be logical to simply increase the fees at a given port to cover the costs of that port? Rather than force ALL ports and states to increase their costs, regardless of the need to do so?
I am wondering why you have such a problem with English.
Please show me where I said any such thing.
Essentially, you are forcing ALL ports to increase the charge on incoming product, regardless of the need of those ports to raise additional capital.
Really? Where did I say any such thing?
So, if your issue really is the infrastructure costs created by shipping, then wouldn't it be logical to simply increase the fees at a given port to cover the costs of that port?
There are a dozen ways to do it. I did not propose one or another. The point is we shouldn't be subsidizing foreign imports and putting our competing industry out of business as a result.
Rather than force ALL ports and states to increase their costs, regardless of the need to do so?
Again... Where did I say any such thing?