To: robertpaulsen
You own a store that sells widgets. There happens to be a widget store across the street from you as well. Your both in fierce competition for consumers.
The NRST is passed and enacted. Prior to this you were paying the Widget suppliers [both foreign & domestic,] $10 per widget. Now the [domestic] widget supplier sells them for $7.
Do you lower your prices before your competition does? Do you lower your prices after he does? Or do neither of you lower your prices?
194 Phantom Lord
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Excuse me, Mr. Phantom Lord, but I import my widgets from a Chinese company. (Actually, I import 75% of my products from overseas manufacturers. So do my competitors. Keeps the retail price low, doncha know.)
How much, again, will I pay for my $10 widget after the NRST?
270 paulsen
Most would pay Seven dollars.
- You? - With your attitude, who could tell?
353 posted on
01/31/2005 9:42:46 AM PST by
jonestown
( A fanatic is a person who can't change his mind and won't change the subject." ~ Winston Churchill)
To: jonestown
Nope. You'd pay $10. The NRST only benefits local manufacturing.
Think about how much we import.
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