Anon - not logged in Report This Comment
Date: November 12, 2024 12:27AM

How thick are you? Not only should you learn to spell but tariffs are about protecting your own industrial base and the employment/taxes it generates. If you don't know that you're simply not educated.

Think, if the shirt is now sold for $50, and another company can make it locally to retail at $45, you just employed dozens or more of your own people, not foreigners, caused the starting of a business in your own country, not somewhere else, and in time of war that business can make things of use to you - like the pump manufacturer in Sydney that made a bomb used in the Vietnam War. Or the brewers who discovered they had the right equipment for making hand sanitiser when a virus came along.

Really, you have to be thick!

Peter Puller Report This Comment
Date: November 12, 2024 02:41AM

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Think, if the shirt is now sold for $50, and another company can make it locally to retail at $45, you just employed dozens or more of your own people, not foreigners, caused the starting of a business in your own country

Now we see why you do not understand tariffs: the word IF. It's ideal if there were some local manufacturer making products that we import, but much of the time there isn't. And when there is, it's still more than the imported version. Plus we have this nasty habit of businesses saying "hey, they're making $xx so we can charge $xx as well" so that shirt will not the $45.

You didn't negate a single thing the post said about how a tariff on a thing will be passed along to the consumer. Because that's how it works. "We'll make China pay for it" is naive and has been proven not to be the case.

Anon - not logged in Report This Comment
Date: November 12, 2024 05:39AM

Peter, I lost a whole career path when Australia slashed its tariffs.

Now we look at the other side: it was worked out in Australia that if there were no tariffs anywhere the average wage would have to be $1-1.40 Australian a day. That was in the 1980's. So multiply by 15 today. Can you live on that?

It's a world of a few super rich explaining, in invented moral tones, why the many should be super poor, with a dramatically smaller middle class.

Now what, in the post or my reply, do you find right, and what do you find wrong?

pulse Report This Comment
Date: November 12, 2024 06:51AM

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Think, if the shirt is now sold for $50, and another company can make it locally to retail at $45, you just employed dozens or more of your own people, not foreigners, caused the starting of a business in your own country, not somewhere else

Sure. But also at the same time the shirt that was $40 is now $45, hiking inflation and causing other issues. The only reason it was made overseas was because it was cheaper. Great, you've solved that, and in doing so increased the price of all affected items.

woberto Report This Comment
Date: November 12, 2024 08:03AM

Nice try commie.
The tariff is set against what price it can be made and sold BY AMERICAN MANUFACTURERS.
The goal is to NOT buy from overseas manufacturers but to buy local.
And if the made in China product is superior, then people will pay the higher price.

Anon - not logged in Report This Comment
Date: November 12, 2024 08:16AM

Doesn't anyone comprehend that tariffs give you lifestyle and employment? It's amazing that isn't in the propaganda, nor your arguments. Now work out if you can live on $21 a day. Life was far better for the many in the tariff days. The whole project is about benefiting the few at the expense of the many. Yes, I called it a project. It's promoted by making things up and presenting them as moral.

pulse Report This Comment
Date: November 12, 2024 11:00AM

Your survival is your problem, I want my cheap Chinese tat.