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To: babble-on; All

Ok, what would happen to the domestic (US) electronics industry if a 4,000% tariff were levied on all imported computer monitors and flat screen TV’s?


52 posted on 05/13/2019 7:22:47 AM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: central_va

With a 4,000% tariff, legal consumption of those items would decline precipitously to about zero. Black markets would develop to smuggle screens in, and those would become the only screens that were consumed. The lack of supply would begin to cost US business in productivity as their old monitors wore out they would repair them rather than replace them. It would be like automobiles in Cuba, with people using ancient technology because the government had made the modern tech illegal. But very few people would buy an $8,000 computer monitor.

You’re still a cretin, but if you keep reading my posts you may slowly grow more intelligent. Drink from my fountain of knowledge oh ignorant one. Is your real name Navarro by any chance?


66 posted on 05/13/2019 8:13:57 AM PDT by babble-on
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