[impimp]

I like cheap Chinese goods and I don’t care for protectionist opinion.

[Dr. Sivana]

I like cheap Chinese goods and I don’t care for protectionist opinion.

Before Red China was to get into the WTO and we gave them "Most Favored Nation" status for trade in the '90s, we already had "free trade " with most of the world. We were able to get cheap stuff from places like Brazil (shoes), Haiti (baseballs), electronics (Taiwan, free Hong Kong, Korea), cars (Mexico), etc. Many of the Red China's corporations have deep tentacles from the Communists running the place Huawei and Lenovo for starters. They will happily sell us Communist rope that can be reprogrammed to hang us at an excellent price.

[BeauBo]

“I like cheap Chinese goods”

The idea is to get equally cheap goods, from Anybody But China - so the profits are no longer used as a weapon against us (e.g. building nuclear missiles aimed at our citie).

[jeffersondem]

“I like cheap Chinese goods and I don’t care for protectionist opinion.”

That’s fine. I’ve bought it myself over the years; often because it was all I could find at the time.

A lot of it has fallen apart in my hands or in the washing machine. One bad thing about cheap Red Chinese goods is that it is not cheap.

[ConservativeMind]

You can always live there. By being a US citizen, you are being penalized by paying income taxes and sales taxes here. In China, with your citizenship revoked, you can be free of both while buying all the cheap Chinese goods you’d ever want.

Once there, you aren’t paying any US tariff, but you will pay a lot of tariff for a US made good. But, since you favor cheap Chinese stuff, you won’t even have to pay those.

It’s a win-win.

[bigbob]

I like cheap goods too but I would much prefer cheap goods that are not made in China, bolstering them as a global superpower. The point of this article is not anti-cheap goods, it is anti-dependency on China.

[rb22982]

Until we get rid of wage, regulatory and environmental mandated costs here in the US, we should have a parity tariff equal to those costs, otherwise its not protectionists opinion, simply suicide.