Riveroaks
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Wrong...Canada dumps cheap lumber on the American market. Lumber mills are closing in the US because they are being under cut by the price of Canadian lumber with the blessing of the Canadian government..
Wrong...Canada dumps cheap lumber on the American market. Lumber mills are closing in the US because they are being under cut by the price of Canadian lumber with the blessing of the Canadian government..
You would greatly increase the price of almost everything.
Yes. It will discourage factories from outsourcing, Plus it is pro-American to not line the pockets of foreign governments.Its also pro-American to keep jobs in the America instead of outsourcing them to countries who use that money to build up their military.
Where did you come-up with 35%?Would you approve of a 35% tariff being placed on goods sold from Mexico and China?
Where did you come-up with 35%?
I would've likely agreed if the specifics was left open-ended, or a lower amount.
Where did you come-up with 35%?
I would've likely agreed if the specifics was left open-ended, or a lower amount.
We need to keep cheap faulty Chinese crap out of the USA.
"Ah, 'I see' said the blind man to his deaf wife"!Trump's specifically mentioned 35% on Mexico. He's gone between 25-45% on China so I went with the average.
Would you approve of a 35% tariff being placed on goods sold from Mexico and China?
As long as Mexico is currupt and so is it's military then building it up will only make it a greater threat to us.It is not our job to give Mexico money so it can solve it's problems,so screw Mexico.Mexico's military could use some building up to fight the drug cartels.
The only reason a job's output is 3 dollars an hour is because that is what the employer chooses to pay or claim it is worth, Because it was not worth 3 dollars of output when that job was in the US.The only reason for outsourcing is to exploit cheaper labor and to exploit what the lack of employee and environmental laws. When tariffs were in place on many of these countries it was cheaper for companies to make things here in the US.But once traitors in office removed those tariffs it made it cheaper to make goods in other countries and ship them to the US.I mentioned this in another post: If a job only produces $3/hour of output, how would you locate that job in the US?
Would you approve of a 35% tariff being placed on goods sold from Mexico and China?
Hillary wants to import tainted Chinese food into our country .
Cheap lumber helps everybody.
Tariffs are among the most stupid and counterproductive forms of taxation. If somebody sincerely believes that erecting trade barriers is a way of strengthening local producers, why not create tariffs on trade between Massachusetts and Mississippi, or between New York City and Los Angeles?
The reasoning behind protectionism is not economic. On the side of workers afraid of losing their jobs it is not reasoning at all, it is fear multiplied by ignorance. On the side of politicians who promote these ideas, it is largely the old good crony-capitalist collusion: Give some temporary selective advantage to one sector or a particular corporation, and who cares about all the consumers who will face increasing cost of living and other American businesses who will suffer from higher prices of materials and spare parts.
How about we stop trying to block our own people's ability to trade peacefully, and focus more on our own ability to make stuff other people want to pay for? (Hint: A giant wall on a border is not one of those.)
I'm curious to how people would feel about a tariff system that is implemented on nations relative to regulations and wages comparable to what we have. If a country uses slave / sweat shop like labor and/or nearly unregulated toxic to the environment type manufacturing they receive an incredibly high tariff. Nations that are roughly the equivalent in environmental protection and wages are virtually free trade. This would cancel out the competitive advantage other nations have while encouraging businesses worldwide to adopt better practices towards both the environment and their workers. I will freely admit I know next to nothing about economics but this does seem like a good compromise.
... They produce cheaper because of a number of factors. Sure they have low wages and this is not something we can and should do much about is my opinion. But other major contributors to the ability of cheap production are a near total lack of respect for every other aspect that influences the price setting of western producers and our dealing with this is hypocritical to say the least. ... Besides this, the entire issue will become pointless in the foreseeable future when technological advancement will allow automated production without human interference. This will make cheap production in cheap countries immediately a thing from the past.
Joey
JoeyJoystick, I’m a proponent of a unilateral trade policy described within Wikipedia’s “import Certificates” article. It remedies USA produced goods comparative price disadvantages to products of low-wage nations.
If the USA determines to address other issues, it should seek other remedies. I’m aware of no omnipotent remedy for ALL illnesses. Global human rights, environment, health, and safety are separate issues each worthy of individual considerations and likely not addressable by just a few individual remedies.
My youngest son concurs with your opinion of “automated production without human interference”; my previous 10:12 AM post addressed to Nap is my differing view of mass-production.
Respectfully, Supposn
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