“I don’t consider the government taking ten thousand dollars or more of my income by outright theft, to be preferable to paing a dollar more for a shirt.”
Given the present cost differential between foreign-made and domestic-made shirts, I think a tariff that had any impact would cost you much more than $1.00 per shirt. You would be hard-pressed to find a US-made all-cotton dress or sport shirt for less than $100.
I’m not convinced that shirts made here have to cost $100 bucks
Wages are vastly over rated when you study their impact on the actual cost of a product.
If a person makes $15.00 an hour and makes 1 shirt, that adds $15.00 to the cost of the shirt.
In truth, the shirt is probably put together in a manner that produces five shirts per hour.
The plant costs are more too, but I’m not buying the idea that a decent profit on volume can’t be made for $30 bucks a shirt.