Originally posted by aretood2
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You bastard!!
Even if everything was made in the USA automation would mean that there'd still be a whole lot less jobs in manufacturing more than in the 40's and 50's. By the 70's the US was importing more stuff. That's why Womble calls them "Zombie jobs" because we will never ever ever get the same number of jobs from manufacturing unless we enact luddite laws and even then we still wouldn't because this would be our national anthem.
One reason why we have less money is that prices have increased at a rate that outpace wage increases, and keep in mind that our wage increases are rather on the low end for a host of other countries. In fact the us ranks rather low like in the bottom 20.
Oh, and that's a "win"....
Then these tariffs would actually just make the low priced stuff more expensive, so congratulations not only are American made stuff going to be still expensive, now everything else is also going to be just as expensive because tariff don't lower domestic prices!
Let's say a pair of shoes that are imported cost $20 And an American made pair of shoes of similar quality and style that cost $25. A Shoe tariff would have to raise the imported Shoes to $25.01 so that you'd be more inclined to buy the "cheaper" shoes. Only problem is that you still have to pay $25.00, you're not saving anything. Any wage increase you could get in the short run is canceled away by the increase in spending you have to do.
Notice you didn't mention anything about maintaining wages or price controls or jobs...yet that's what you and and your comrade Annoyed are advocating the glorious people's state to do.
Insurance companies also had a play at it by trying to get people to use the doctors less for preventative care. Then they use their money to get congress to pass laws that make it harder for patients to do some price comparisons. Pricing is so mysterious that the doctors themselve don't know how much something cost.
Parochial schools, not charter schools which are really subpar when compared to public schools.
My dad constantly tells me how his boss wants more workers yet the only ones he gets are immigrants, and he pays well above minimum wage too and is pretty liberal with time off. But you are also forgetting that their relative buy American goods and services so it actually helps our export market...
Don't hold your breath on a coherent answer, or you may need 3rd party insurance...….
Those foreigners!!!!
We need to end it now!!!
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