Posted on 10/17/2022 4:57:34 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
Oh BS. A small tariff will even the playing field and create ecnonmic prosperity here. You want balanced budgets? The you want tariffs and industry.
To the end consumer that is insignificant and equates to a few pennies on the dollar.
Tariffs are good.
horse sh1t.
You can’t be that f-ing stupid? So according to you a made in the USA a widget costs $20 and made in the 3rd world $5? LOL. You are saying per widget, the cost of labor is $15 of per US made widget? So it takes 1 hour to make one $20 widget? Where the F did you go to school?
Ask the mods to pull your post, reason? Pure stupidity...
According to the BLS only 7% of the US manufacturing work force is in a union. Yesterdays war. Hey old farts, it’s not 1975!!!
“According to the BLS only 7% of the US manufacturing work force is in a union. Yesterdays war. Hey old farts, it’s not 1975!!!”
Good, then getting rid of that 7% won’t be a problem!
Good then rapatriating industry wiil be overwhelmingly non union. Old fart, listen up it is not 1975....
“Good then rapatriating industry wiil be overwhelmingly non union. Old fart, listen up it is not 1975.”
Yep, sounds like a deal - get rid of unions and repatriate the manufacturing jobs!
If there are only 7% union in the USA then you don’t have to completely elimnate them. You have some kinf of mid 20th century form of union derangement syndrome.
You build one pipe bomb in your basement and the Feds are all over your ass. You build a virus that could kill 200 + million and the feds are no where...
> You are saying per widget, the cost of labor is $15 of per US made widget? <
No. It’s the cost of labor, plus the regulatory costs, plus the taxes, plus the insurance costs, plus a dozen other things. American industry is hamstrung by almost too many things to count.
I am quite familiar with your posts. You favor tariffs to help bring industry back to America. If you’d care to check, you would see that I agree with you completely. A nation without industry is helpless.
My point - and I stand behind it - is that it business leaders are not the main villains here. Local, state, and federal governments have arranged things such that many American goods are no longer price-competitive with foreign goods.
This has got to change. And that change has to start in DC.
Since I’m in a typing mood, permit me add something to my post #52. It is something I have mentioned before.
A few years ago I was watching a news story about an American company that made door locks for cars. The company owner was very upset. He said that the Chinese had entered the market, and were selling door locks for less than it took for his company to make them.
The Chinese locks weren’t as good as the American ones. But they were good enough. So the owner had only two options. Either go bankrupt or move his production to China. He hated that he had to make that decision. And he was almost crying because he saw his employees as family.
I don’t know I what the owner ended up doing. But if he moved production, he’s not the bad guy. The bad guy is the one who let the Chinese locks enter the American market.
“You have some kinf of mid 20th century form of union derangement syndrome.”
Correct, spent many years having to deal with them. They need to go, they serve NO PURPOSE that isn’t covered by labor laws.
You’re living in the past, 100 years plus in the past.
Or, if you did, your product would be ridiculously expensive. Because our government is a financial vampire.
As I said get rid of the killing manufacturing production regulations and increase energy production
Fire most of the EPA.
I have no free trade illusions and know that stable jobs for the entire working population is the best path to stability and a functioning society
Yep. Stop making as much disposable plastic stuff, too.
In a word tariffs.
Fed government overregulation, corporate taxes, unreliable energy supply, CIA coordinated antifa brownshirts, race riots, dindunuffins running wild, corrupt justice, corrupt DAs, and fat, spoiled millennials who don't want to work. How are those for starters?
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