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To: Las Vegas Ron
Tariffs won't bring back jobs, they will only raise consumer prices.

A small tariff of say 10% would completely eliminate the comparative advantage of using slave overseas labor. The off shoring would stop, and gradually manufacturing would return. It wouldn't happen overnight, just like offshoring didn't happen overnight.

65 posted on 01/12/2014 1:53:41 PM PST by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: central_va
A small tariff of say 10% would completely eliminate the comparative advantage of using slave overseas labor.

10% wouldn't even cause a blip.

What would it take to bring back a companies business that would have to off set BILLIONS in expenses?

You would have to eliminate wage controls', i.e. unions, regulations, vis a vie EPA, OSHA, tort reforms, and the myriad other demands placed on businesses today.

It isn't that simple.

68 posted on 01/12/2014 2:20:33 PM PST by Las Vegas Ron ("Medicine is the keystone in the arch of socialism" Vladimir Lenin)
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To: central_va

BTW, that “small tariff” get’s passed on to the consumer....


69 posted on 01/12/2014 2:22:21 PM PST by Las Vegas Ron ("Medicine is the keystone in the arch of socialism" Vladimir Lenin)
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