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Using government to artificially raise the price of goods isn't going to help us, it's going to lower are living standards.

That is the most thoughtless statement I have read so far. Do you think taxes and regulation don't impose costs on products?

If I have one million dollars to spend on stuff, and I spend it all on foreign made junk, how are your living standards improved? If everyone spends all of their money on foreign made goods, how is your living standard improved? Now compare that to what if I and many other people bought things from you, now is your standard of living going to be effected? Or are you retired or on welfare and live off the pillage of other people?

Using government to artificially raise the price of goods isn't going to help us, it's going to lower are living standards.

That is the most thoughtless statement I have read so far. Do you think taxes and regulation don't impose costs on products?

Reading comprehension problem? I think they do, which is why I said using the government to artificially raise the price of goods isn't going to help us.

If I have one million dollars to spend on stuff, and I spend it all on foreign made junk, how are your living standards improved?

Well, doc, one thing I could do is be the guy who gets it to you. It doesn't magically appear just because you want it.

Now compare that to what if I and many other people bought things from you, now is your standard of living going to be effected?

That depends on what I can buy with the money. If it's just a bunch of overpriced American junk (say for example a 1981 Dodge K car instead of a Datsun that will go 300,000 miles), then not really. If you're forced to pay more by the government (via their coercive limitation of competition) your living standard is also reduced. I don't want the government used as a tool to improve my living standard at your expense, or anyone elses. I'll get your money the old fashioned way thanks, by offering more value for it.