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Egg prices: US vs Mexico

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A guy goes to a Walmart in Mexico to check out egg prices:
So why can't US grocery stores simply import eggs from Mexico? Because the goddamn progressive regulatory state prohibits it, just like it prohibits importing insulin.

Never forget: the main purpose of government regulation is to restrict our choices, thereby making us worse off.
 

If we get rid of government regulation, we would have to get rid of border enforcement. Would you like that?
 
What's the tariff on agricultural imports from Mexico?
Or is there one today? Can't keep track. The USA seems unable to make a decision.
 
Eggs in Canada are about $4.50. Here in FL they are $7 in Publix which is about $9 plus Canadian . I read that the US was looking to increase imports of Canadian eggs.....my answer...sure, with a 25% surtax.
 
In California it wouldn't matter if there were tariffs on eggs.

We have free range chicken laws that require each chicken to have its own 400 square foot studio apartment that Mexico and many other states don't abide by. So they wouldn't be able to bring their dirty filthy eggs into our utopian paradise anyway.
 
Callen said:
Eggs in Canada are about $4.50. Here in FL they are $7 in Publix which is about $9 plus Canadian . I read that the US was looking to increase imports of Canadian eggs.....my answer...sure, with a 25% surtax.
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Cut 'em off of eggs altogether.
 
Bok Tuklo said:
I assume he is serious. Borders are anathema to true anarchists.
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Yes, in the sense of anarchists that repeat the full dogma.

And no, in the sense that none of them have actually tried eeking out an existence in a region in which no formal government can extend power (which of course isn't actually anarchy anyway, because there *will* always be a strongman/warlord)
 
Callen said:
Eggs in Canada are about $4.50. Here in FL they are $7 in Publix which is about $9 plus Canadian . I read that the US was looking to increase imports of Canadian eggs.....my answer...sure, with a 25% surtax.
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Yup, leave it up to the current clueless administration to try to use Canadian eggs to possibly lower the price? Forget about the fact that said kooky administration just waged war on our neighbors to the north..
 
Callen said:
Eggs in Canada are about $4.50. Here in FL they are $7 in Publix which is about $9 plus Canadian . I read that the US was looking to increase imports of Canadian eggs.....my answer...sure, with a 25% surtax.
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I go down the hill aways and pay $6 at the farm gate. Cooler full of egg cartons, coffee can for the money. Free-range, yolks more orange than the back of Trump's neck.
Don't know if I like the idea of increasing exports to the US though. Not unless we're so over-productive that eggs are being trashed. Besides, every dozen eggs would put a buck or so into the US government coffers.
 
The problem isn't that Mexican eggs are cheaper and that we can't import them. Hell, we produce enough eggs right here in the US.

The problem is state laws that require eggs to be cage free and/or free range.

I used to be able to buy a dozen eggs here in Colorado for less than $2, but since they passed the law requiring all eggs to be cage free, I can't get a dozen for less than $5.
 
@Phys251 Of course I'm serious.

What exactly is the big deal about crossing political borders? People should be allowed to live wherever they choose. The same people who have no problem with an open border between CT and NY or California and Nevada, have a major stroke over an open border between the US and Mexico. It makes no sense whatsoever. Both countries would benefit.
 

Move to Alabama. Hell, their laws probably require that egglaying hens be treated as inhumanely as possible.
 
Sorry, this damn government has no business profiting off the price of any food items coming into this country. It used to be called "providing for the countries citizens" until trumpdump. FFS!
That's an easy one. According to the trump admin, the ONLY people coming into this country from Mexico are criminals, rapists, and fentanyl drug runners. Forget bout the fact that there is zero proof of this. Just ask any magat; Idiot trump says it, it must be true!
 

The case for immigration​

Can rich countries accept migrants without jeopardising their democracies?​


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Advocates of entirely open borders tend to advance two types of arguments. The first is economic. Opening all borders would make the world instantly richer. Some believe that it could double the world’s GDP. That is because workers become more productive as they move from a poor country to a rich one. They join a labour market with ample capital, efficient firms and a predictable legal system. If they are service workers, they will find richer and better-paying clients. By some estimates, more than two-thirds of a person’s overall wealth is determined by where they live and work.

The second argument for open borders is a moral one. Where someone is born is entirely a matter of chance, so there is no moral justification for compelling people to stay in a poor country. By the same token, those lucky enough to have been born in rich countries have no right to exclude others from their good fortune. Opponents of open borders are not convinced by either of those arguments. Even if the world as a whole were to grow richer thanks to open borders, they say, poorer people in the migrants’ destination countries would suffer. The new arrivals would depress their wages and compete with them for resources such as social housing and unemployment benefits. The welfare states that Western democracies have painstakingly built over the past few decades would collapse under the task of absorbing millions of people ill-suited to local labour markets. Cultural conflicts between natives and immigrants would before long cause violent clashes, threatening social stability.

The Economist
 
Jessie C said:
Sorry, this damn government has no business profiting off the price of any food items coming into this country. It used to be called "providing for the countries citizens" until trumpdump. FFS!
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It's kind of eye-opening alright. The federal government charging citizens for the right to buy food that's been imported.
Much, if not most, of the wheat used in the USA comes from Canada. Will the feds charge Americans to buy a loaf of bread or a sack of flour?
Not to make a bad pun but all this extra tax on food must be hard for Americans to swallow.
 

They say it's because of disease prevention and food safety standards but then why do US grocery stores import so much produce from MX.? You're right, it makes no sense other than the reason you wrote above.
 

Last week we paid $15.50 for twenty free range here in CA. Right now it's a matter of supply and demand that is driving up prices and it's not because of inflation as the progressives are saying. It's because of the bird flu.
 
trixare4kids said:
Last week we paid $15.50 for twenty free range here in CA. Right now it's a matter of supply and demand that is driving up prices and it's not because of inflation as the progressives are saying. It's because of the bird flu.
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So you are paying about $9.30 a dozen? Damn!!
 
I'm tired of all of this stupid egg bullshit. I hope that people start wearing them as jewelry and **** up their outfits with them.
 
Callen said:
Eggs in Canada are about $4.50. Here in FL they are $7 in Publix which is about $9 plus Canadian . I read that the US was looking to increase imports of Canadian eggs.....my answer...sure, with a 25% surtax.
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Imagine the federal government putting a 25% tax on food? It's jaw-dropping. Marginal, poverty-stricken people paying the price so the wealthy, influential upper crust can posture.
Much, maybe most, of the wheat used in the US comes from Canada, too.
 
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