[central_va]

Prices here will rise because competition from abroad is reduced or eliminated.

There is still domestic competition, or did you just forget that because you are so fixated on foreign interests?

[arthurus]

Domestic competition starts from a higher cost basis with all the government costs. There is less incentive to improve. You would deny people access to inexpensive goods in order to preserve the high taxes and stifling and totalitarian regulations. Are you really a believer in the Total State?