[Popman]

One federal agency that could vastly improve our exporting abilities for small business is the import - export bank...

It needs to be streamlined and expanded to help small businesses sell overseas to be competitive...

[Fai Mao]

I’d rather pay $750 for the shirt and have fewer people on welfare.

Create jobs reduce welfare shrink government

[GenXteacher]

People with no jobs will not be buying any goods, no matter how cheap.

[central_va]

You buy imported crap twice. Once at the store and again when you pay income taxes.

[central_va]

The reason why Free Traitors™ always use textiles and apparel as examples of obtaining ground shaking cost savings using slave labor is because textiles and apparel are the most labor intensive to produce durable good you can buy. For the overwhelming majority of the durable goods labor is just a small component of the overall retail price. Usually less than 8%. Those experts want you to think this applies to all durable goods and nothing could be further form the truth.

Don't let them mislead you. Prices for made in America products are just marginally more expensive.

[Regulator]

We have to make a case for this?

It used to be conventional wisdom. No one disputed it.

Some of us in the over 50 crowd recall an America where virtually EVERYTHING was made here, and that was considered our greatest strength.

Now somebody has to try to convince us?!

[Jim from C-Town]

A forty percent tariff on a five dollar shirt would be around forty cents retail. Around the same amount as the massive sales tax most states charge.

If a shirt retails for $5. It costs around $1 to purchase. The rest is delivery, warehousing, merchandising, overhead and handling costs.

[tbw2]

One of the problems with our “fair trade” deals is that we removed our tarriffs but they retained barriers to importing US made goods - so we get all their stuff cheap but it is hard to export.