Posted on 01/18/2017 5:19:10 AM PST by expat_panama
Don’t be silly. Transport drivers and retailers don’t create wealth. They all should get jobs at plants making stuff that can’t be transported or sold.
They have a VAT on everything sold in the country but waive it for exports. It always amazed me that you could buy a BMW for less in Dallas than the comparable car would cost in Nuremberg.
Dollar strength is only a concern for those in the import/export business.
When we are importing more than exporting a strong dollar is needed, but how does one get a strong dollar if it is economically weak??
I don’t want unnecessary imports, and I could care less about exports. If we get exports that’s just gravy for the economy, but to manage our economy solely on export is retarded.
For all this talk about strong American exports, we’ve lost that battle so far and now import far more than we export.
Let’s try something else now, shall we?
All you chickenhawks claiming America must be weak and cower need to F yourselves.
The purpose of a tariff is to artificially hike the price of the import making the domestic source more profitable resulting in more Americans working and reducing the welfare money spent. Win-win. It's the whole point which is to reverse the bias from middlemen profits obtained importing goods into the USA to real wages and benefits for Americans making goods.
The petulant Free Traitors™ have to realize that there are two sides to this issue. Trump is going to teach them the hard way.
I have to admit that was a good question. Which is a surprise coming from you.
No let's not. Show me the money or drop it.
“If so, you’re being rather disingenuous.”
Anyone claiming to be an expatriate is disingenuous by definition. They made their money here but then left with it to spend it elsewhere. expat_panama does nothing but anti-American threads that state America should be weaker to be better. Typical liberal agenda.
Pse tell me if you're aware that we always sell the same amount of stuff overseas that we buy -that even while some goods may be in surplus or deficit that trade as a whole will always balance.
Once a new car reaches the customer all that shipping, marketing, retailing added NOTHING to the value of the car. Who sat in their new car and thought about the cool train it shipped on or the car dealers furniture? Nobody. Those services didn’t create anything.
“Speaking of “tool,” how will your vaunted 10% tariff affect the jobs at those domestic U.S. manufacturers that rely upon imported materials?”
Well, why don’t we ask all those other nations you support that do it? It doesn’t seem to hurt them any.
“Their material cost will go up 10% like all of their competitors. Maybe a domestic source will come online if the material is available locally. “
Exactly!
The bigger question is why the hell are we importing in the first place?? We used to export steel to Japan and now we import it from Japan? Since when did Japan get iron ore reserves??
This upside down “hate America” crap has got to stop.
As you said, tariff imports and watch domestic production explode.
Almost two-thirds of the rubber in the world is produced in three countries: Thailand, Indonesia and Malaysia. How much is that rubber worth in those countries, and how much is it worth after it is transported to a production facility?
To be fair, maybe you are a really, really drunk Alexander Hamilton.
Can you name any industry that isn't involved in imports and/or exports?
Try putting that in English.
Besides, I couldn’t give a sh*t what some anti-American expat thinks, especially you since you always post that America must be weaker to be better!
Your liberal agenda is well known here. I am surprised you haven’t been zotted by now.
Tariffs also generate lots of revenue and if we can use it to balance the budget then the dollar strengthen even more. The trick is austerity.
It sounds like you have no idea what it means for a product or commodity to be more valuable in one location than another. Take a Honda that is rolled off the assembly line in Marysville, Ohio. If those cars could only be sold to people who walked to the plant, the company wouldn't even be able to sell enough cars to justify building the plant in the first place.
I don't care what the customer "thinks" the value of the shipping process may be. The reality is that when they sit in a new car, they are sitting in something that they never would have been able to own without the shipping process that brought it to the dealership where they bought it.
....which has nothing to do with offshoring and importing back to the USA duty free.
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