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You people are kidding yourselves, the US is not the only market for Chinese goods. The trade imbalance is because we are far too dependent upon China for goods, and that ship already sailed. Buying from other countries isn't going to solve this, it's not like all the products that we buy from China can be purchased from Mexico or India.
Indeed. Americans are too used to cheap stuff. And the bigger problem is they're used to "stuff" period.
When you look at it, there is going to be a trade imbalance no matter what is done. The US accounts for fully 1/4 of the world's GDP, so a lot of countries are going to come up short.
I don't think the trade imbalance is a problem. It IS a problem when China steals our technology, or subsidizes an industry in order to sell at artificially low prices. Tariffs are a good idea. When China behaves, we can remove the tariffs.
So I guess the implication is that we need the "nanny state" to use taxes to force Americans to buy less "cheap stuff".
Absolutely not. I'm just saying in general people are too addicted to stuff. That was my only point. They want to buy all that stuff as cheaply as possible. Who needs a new smart phone every year?
So your answer is to artificially increase the price of the cheaper door knobs and then we can have a booming door knob industry.
At least until the next guy gets in and changes the tariffs again on a whim and then *poof* the whole industry collapses because it was only successful in a fake controlled environment.
It collapses - Along with all the other fake successful industries.
It collapses - Along with the entire American economy.
That's not my answer, that's what places like Walmart do, and people shopping there promote and sustain that type of business activity. Now that China can't ship their cheap materials manufactured by factory workers who are being paid something close to nothing, Walmart now needs to find another vender, perhaps one that's right here in the US which means that manufacturer has adequate material tolerances and safety guidelines along with minimum wages and benefits that they have to pay their American factory workers. Since these such products is going to cost Walmart more to purchase to stock on their shelves, they will just pass those increased costs onto the consumer first, instead of having the increase cost bite into their profit margin.
So manufacturing goes to businesses right here in America and keeps American workers in the factories employed. What's not to like about that? Oh yeah.....Boo Hoo you have to pay a little bit more for your American made merchandise.
That's not my answer, that's what places like Walmart do, and people shopping there promote and sustain that type of business activity. Now that China can't ship their cheap materials manufactured by factory workers who are being paid something close to nothing, Walmart now needs to find another vender, perhaps one that's right here in the US which means that manufacturer has adequate material tolerances and safety guidelines along with minimum wages and benefits that they have to pay their American factory workers. Since these such products is going to cost Walmart more to purchase to stock on their shelves, they will just pass those increased costs onto the consumer first, instead of having the increase cost bite into their profit margin.
So manufacturing goes to businesses right here in America and keeps American workers in the factories employed. What's not to like about that? Oh yeah.....Boo Hoo you have to pay a little bit more for your American made merchandise.
If Americans wanted to pay more for American made merchandise, they could tell us so. Americans have already voted with their wallets.
I'm concerned that this will severely impact low IQ DEM voters that shop Walmart.
Uh huh, Google “People of Walmart”. Those people sure didn’t vote for Hillary.
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Uh huh, Google “People of Walmart”. Those people sure didn’t vote for Hillary.
