We still in fact produce televisions, albeit only the large-screen projection models. So you are jumping the gun. The occurrence of the gouging that is an inevitability, and is a matter of timing between the foreign producers...after presumably coming to some kind of oligopolistic consensus...
So they're gouging us on smaller TVs? On VCRs? Can you give some examples of anything we no longer manufacture here where we are being gouged? If you're right, there must be thousands of examples.