Posted on 03/20/2016 2:57:17 PM PDT by central_va
The United States is rapidly becoming the very first "post-industrial" nation on the globe. All great economic empires eventually become fat and lazy and squander the great wealth that their forefathers have left them, but the pace at which America is accomplishing this is absolutely amazing. It was America that was at the forefront of the industrial revolution.
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This is a point that is usually overlooked in these discussions.
Only if they can make it for the same cost here.
What else are you going to say? LOL
This is really eatin at you fella.
Poor thing...
Maybe someone should look up those Freepers who tell me that I am too ignorant and stupid to understand the long range benefits of free trade agreements. They will have all the answers.
Thanks for your thoughtful reply.
The union labor cost per car made in the USA is 8%. I doubt if anything manufactured in the USA is going to need more labor than a car assembly line.
Or they can continue making the goods overseas at cheap costs and pass the tariff on to the consumers.
Thanks for insulting the patriots that are on this thread who haven’t given up on America. /sarc
Greed says no to that but instead make it here for the windfall. Greed is good. I think Trump can come up with a tax incentive for upstarts to build high tech state of the art factories in the USA behind a 20% tariffs. Not a hard sell.
Not really. It's wound up pretty much as I expected. Trumpster makes claim. I ask them to support them. They can't and instead go for attempted insults. Some things never change.
What we are doing isn’t working. We need a new coach. I would rather have someone that made umteen deals in the real world then someone who argued 9 times before the Supreme Court.
Nope, for decades now I’ve been dealing with misinformation folks who try to trash anything that has to do with us bringing jobs back here.
I had you number from the word go. You don’t think that’s possible.
It is.
You folks are fruitier than a fruitcake.
You get fixated because you can’t win when folks won’t waste their time with you, so you hurl insults and claim it’s the other person.
Well, I told you right off I wasn’t going to dialogue with you.
Mr. intelligence couldn’t grasp the concept.
The rope used to make the nooses for traitors should always be of foreign manufacture.
In order for a 20% tariff to represent a guaranteed 20% profit then your scenario requires that the U.S. manufacturer be able to manufacture the item for exactly the same cost as manufacturing overseas and shipping here. If they could do that then why wouldn't they be manufacturing them here to begin with?
A corporate tax rate of 0%, a low flat income tax on everyone, sensible environmental regulation, massive welfare reduction, business-friendly rather than union-friendly laws, selling a lot of the western public lands to private ranchers and business.
There's 6 conservative steps we could take to make corporations want to stay here. Instead Trumpies think the liberal step of raising taxes through tariffs is the answer.
No insult intended, but no one is going to save America by thinking we're going back to a 1958 economy.
You picked a bad example. Auto manufacturing is one of the strongest manufacturing subsectors in the U.S. today. One big reason for it is that UAW workers are in decline, and most of the growth in the industry is in non-union plants in the South.
If it's all been like this I can't imagine you've had any success in educating anyone.
There’s a lot you can’t imagine. That’s why I don’t bother with folks like you.
You telegraphed your intent with your first contact.
How’s this working out for ya?
Labor is a small part of the price of a unit of production. Taxes and regulation dominate. If a business is paying a lot more for corporate taxes and regulation to produce in America, then some may be willing to go abroad even though the quality of the workforce is less. The reason we have higher wages is because we're better.
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