Re: If it is cheaper, Americans we don't care about the con

Posted by Bret4207 on November 04, 2014 at 17:27:59 from (64.19.90.196):

In Reply to: If it is cheaper, Americans we don't care about the consequ posted by mab570diesel on November 04, 2014 at 06:07:38:

mab570diesel said: (quoted from post at 11:07:38 11/04/14) Bret4207 said: (quoted from post at 13:22:51 11/04/14) So, whats the alternative? We place massive tariffs and duties on imported goods to "make it more fair" and the $15.00 blue jeans cost $45-50.00 when made by US company using US union workers at a US plant paying US taxes. The $40K pickup using imported parts suddenly becomes an $80K pickup when all the costs are added in, plus union wages and retirement. Might as well shut down Wally world and the internet for shopping too, can't have any low cost options that aren't taxed to death. The fact is that if you look around you, no matter how much you try and how much bluster you strut about, if you have a choice between 2 identical items you will take the one that costs less. America priced itself out of the market and then taxed itself into a corner. Then we regulated and preserved ourselves to the point that we can't be what we were. Simple as that. How does the average person afford to live in the dream world where everything is made in the good ol' USA? You can't. you're not the brightest bulb in the pack.I'll tell you a little story about brazil.They didn't have much auto manufacturing back in the 70's so they imposed 110% import tax on all foreign vehicles,now they are the 7th largest auto manufacturer in the world .see how that works we need to keep these junk toyotas and kubotas where they belong,not saying no imports(competition is good) just not nearly as much.does nobody else see the rest of the world is benefiting from free trade we are suffering.and if jeans were 50 a pair(some are more than that now btw lol)people could afford them because lots more folks would be working thus lowering the cost of things,not raising them,more people paying taxes means less of a burden on each person.I could go on and on with ASSEMBLED HERE NOT designed engineered etc. HERE where do you think the profits go in our economy? NO but sheeple will be sheeple.

Right to insults, eh genius? Where does the money come from to buy the $50.00 jeans? From the non-existant jobs at non-existant plants using non-existant union labor that wants $30.00 an hour to sew jeans? It won't work Mr. Brain Trust. Not without tearing the whole shebang down and starting over. People call sewing jeans "sweat shop labor". They won't do it. I don't know what dream you're living in, but the world doesn't work like that. Not anymore in the US anyways.

BTW, the Brazilian auto industry only exists because of investment by companies like Chevrolet, Toyota, Volkswagen, Ford, Fiat, Mercedes-Benz. Thats who was making cars there. In the 1990's the Brazillian market was opened to imports and Nissan, Renault, Peugeot, Citroën, Honda, Hyundai, Mitsubishi, Chrysler and Audi all opened factories there. The only 2 Brazilian companies are Agrale and TAC. The most successful company is Troller, but it's owned by Ford.

Your line of thinking follows that of a lot of other tin pot dictators and despots- force people to buy what you want them to by making it uncomfortable to by anything else. They call that socialism in polite company where I come from. When tender ears aren't around we call it communism. "Da comerade! Ve make the sheeple buy vat the central committee dictates they should buy!"

This post was edited by Bret4207 at 17:28:48 11/04/14.

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