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Don't worry about it. With the extra $15 per month you get from your tax cut, you'll be able to afford the new higher prices on Chinese goods.

I don't care who you are... that there's funny! hehe

 

Maybe it's time to stop importing all this Chinese crap and start supporting US companies and the US labor force...

 

When I returned from a 2 month trip to China <Quemo, in the Taklamakan Basin> I swore to never buy a thing from China again. 1995.
Cheap BASTARDS would cut any and every corner they possibly could.

Well, that didn't work out very well...

 

This stuff only works if you're able to be 100% self-sufficient and only sell to Americans.

That hasn't been the case in a long time. Companies have been targeting China, India, etc as growing markets for a long time. Most of them don't have a clue how to really base themselves in the US.

 

It was very difficult in 1995 to buy things not made in China. It is now impossible.

 

Yep , and very difficult to find anything made in America , as I've said before.
Virtually every company , name , that we'd consider American , now have their products made outside America ,
mostly in east and south Asia area.

So I guess now , it will get worse.
American products will cost more ,
and likely Chinese products will be even cheaper , due to more being available ,
(to tariff free traders)
and since we already have a good comprehensive mutual trade deal with China ,
no problem taking all we want ,
and selling them whatever they want.
Win Win
on the surface.

But unfortunately , that masks the problems of America removing itself from the competitive market.

Both the reduced competition ,
and the lack of them having any influence.
Basically , America has become , and is increasingly , just a bystander.
Or onlookers.

And while we're all doing deals getting rid of tariffs ,
America is staying outside of deals , isolating itself , and using tariffs ,
increasing their non competitiveness.

I don't think that will work out very well in this century.
Most of us have moved on from the twentieth century thinking and ways.

(sure , we had to bite the bullet , change our ways and production habits , and accept some pretty tough decisions , and produce what we can best and most competatively ,
but it's paid off handsomely.

and remember , were a very small country , less than 5 million , and furthest away , longest supply a delivery routes)


Time will tell for America.

 

Federal fucking government regulations have also been a real reason for less production/less manufacturing in the U.S..

China and India have far less environmental regulation than the U.S., another reason that is far cheaper to produce in other countries, and often overlooked.

 

This is a classic example of liberal thinking, failing to take into account the law of unintended consequences. Now we are facing the dismantling of our import driven economy and it will not be painless.

It might even help us combat the growing problem of pollution, because most of the products that are imported have a short life and wind up in our trash heaps.

 

Environmental regulations are worth paying for. The air in most Chinese cities is unhealthful.

 

I am using Chinese pots that are about thirty years old. My PC is made in China. It is eleven years old. It works fine.

 

You pay for avoiding it every time you buy a product made in China.....

It's like when liberals get together for a environmental rally and then leave behind trash everywhere for someone else to clean up...

 

Union wages drove the cost of manufacturing up so high, corporations turned to China for cheap labor to compete. This caused US manufacturing to tank, created job losses and we suffered. So we put tariffs on Chinese goods and we suffer once again because we will pay much more for products, leaving us with less money to live on.

Ain't life grand?

 

Lol drove it up so high?

Do you have any idea how much literally every company marks up literally every product no matter how cheaply it's made?

 

Has literally nothing to do with anything other than companies being greedy.

 

''Corporate greed'' is nothing more than a leftist buzzword.

Business is required to have a profit margin to maintain a business.

 

Total leftist horseshit.

The ''unhealthy air'' in a couple, not most cities in China, has everything to do with the topography....not the production of goods and services.

 

Everything purchased has a shelf life, everything is disposable.

 

Here's my take on this idiocy. The orange baby gives major tax-cuts to the already extraordinary wealthy who don't create jobs with it and don't even need it. He also gives some time-limited crumbs to the middle of the pyramid.

He then imposes tariffs on most everyone who sells stuff to the good old US of A. Those doing the selling then put their prices up which the good folk of said US have to pay - to the American exchequer.

At the same time many of the consumers of primary produce, particularly China, look around for other suppliers which puts people in America out of work.

Can anyone see where this is going?