There is many fine foreign products.
I myself have not had the fortitude to ignore them out of a sense of moral obligation, but I can certainly appreciate people that do and will not belittle them.
Most of us are raised to be selfish today. To hold value and a good deal above all else. We can invent plenty of excuses to justify it:
If a domestic manufacturer wanted our business they could produce just as good or better of a product and sell it for less or at the same price as products made in a nation with workers operating under poor conditions and who barely make enough to eat.
Yeah!
We can support barbaric treatment of those people, even to save just a small percent, while at the same time demanding better salaries and conditions here.
We are a nation of selfish hypocrites. Where the most successful business models are those that import the lowest priced products from nations with the least compassion for their workers, in the highest numbers.
Part of the problem of course is those that support freedom have been taught by party lines and big business that freedom involves free-trade.
Republicans backed by big business teach it.
Democrats support it, Clinton signed NAFTA.
'Free-trade' is complete crap, and the founders knew it.
Tariffs and duties were charged for many imports during their time. The purpose of which is to push the price of foreign goods up, insuring people don't buy foreign to save a few pennies, and only when the foreign product is actually good enough to pay more money for.
No I don't support actually banning or restricting those foreign products from being imported either, which is also done in some cases today. That is not freedom either.
Gun manufacturing is one of the few industries protected by legislation that gives domestic manufacturers some advantage over foreign products.
Just look at the points system for import of revolvers and pistols, making it impossible to import many of the most popular designs, and insuring American companies don't even have to compete with foreign production.
Or 922r type legislation with long guns, sporting configuration requirements, etc that give domestic manufacturers an advantage over foreign.
However contrary to what I posted above I do not support that hypocrisy, it is not a flat tariff, a tariff on par with what is imposed on all other imported products (of which there is none on many things today.) No they are blanket bans on importation of certain firearms or configurations entirely.
It would also be hypocritical to support even tariffs for firearms when it is not done for most other industries, and only for firearms.
That is wrong as well.
Tariffs should be imposed across the board on most imported products, not huge ones, but enough to cause people to pick American over Chinese when the difference is a couple percent price difference.
They should be designed to encourage domestic production and local business.
Not benefit multinational corporations who are selfish and teach that free trade and the free market equal freedom because it is more profitable to have factories in China, their headquarters on an island with lower taxes, and no loyalty to any nation, morals, or ideals.
But it would have to equally apply to most industries, not a couple.
While domestic taxes should be lower.
There is very clear ways to have a booming economy, but we would rather be selfish.
But then again the selfish situation does make nations less patriotic, and ties economies of nations with opposing ideals together instead of letting them be independent. That probably reduces the occurrence of large scale industrial wars. After all China and the US would probably be doing a lot more military posturing and similar to the times of the Cold War if our economies were not intertwined and mutually dependent on the other.
Millions of people are not sent off to die every couple decades as the early 20th century showed was going to be the norm with an industrialized world.
So you know what, I don't have the answer after all. Selfish multinational big business with no loyalty to any ideals or any nation, and who would abandon the US if profit dictated, may be benefiting us after all.
Now to go price some foreign imports.
I myself have not had the fortitude to ignore them out of a sense of moral obligation, but I can certainly appreciate people that do and will not belittle them.
Most of us are raised to be selfish today. To hold value and a good deal above all else. We can invent plenty of excuses to justify it:
If a domestic manufacturer wanted our business they could produce just as good or better of a product and sell it for less or at the same price as products made in a nation with workers operating under poor conditions and who barely make enough to eat.
Yeah!
We can support barbaric treatment of those people, even to save just a small percent, while at the same time demanding better salaries and conditions here.
We are a nation of selfish hypocrites. Where the most successful business models are those that import the lowest priced products from nations with the least compassion for their workers, in the highest numbers.
Part of the problem of course is those that support freedom have been taught by party lines and big business that freedom involves free-trade.
Republicans backed by big business teach it.
Democrats support it, Clinton signed NAFTA.
'Free-trade' is complete crap, and the founders knew it.
Tariffs and duties were charged for many imports during their time. The purpose of which is to push the price of foreign goods up, insuring people don't buy foreign to save a few pennies, and only when the foreign product is actually good enough to pay more money for.
No I don't support actually banning or restricting those foreign products from being imported either, which is also done in some cases today. That is not freedom either.
Gun manufacturing is one of the few industries protected by legislation that gives domestic manufacturers some advantage over foreign products.
Just look at the points system for import of revolvers and pistols, making it impossible to import many of the most popular designs, and insuring American companies don't even have to compete with foreign production.
Or 922r type legislation with long guns, sporting configuration requirements, etc that give domestic manufacturers an advantage over foreign.
However contrary to what I posted above I do not support that hypocrisy, it is not a flat tariff, a tariff on par with what is imposed on all other imported products (of which there is none on many things today.) No they are blanket bans on importation of certain firearms or configurations entirely.
It would also be hypocritical to support even tariffs for firearms when it is not done for most other industries, and only for firearms.
That is wrong as well.
Tariffs should be imposed across the board on most imported products, not huge ones, but enough to cause people to pick American over Chinese when the difference is a couple percent price difference.
They should be designed to encourage domestic production and local business.
Not benefit multinational corporations who are selfish and teach that free trade and the free market equal freedom because it is more profitable to have factories in China, their headquarters on an island with lower taxes, and no loyalty to any nation, morals, or ideals.
But it would have to equally apply to most industries, not a couple.
While domestic taxes should be lower.
There is very clear ways to have a booming economy, but we would rather be selfish.
But then again the selfish situation does make nations less patriotic, and ties economies of nations with opposing ideals together instead of letting them be independent. That probably reduces the occurrence of large scale industrial wars. After all China and the US would probably be doing a lot more military posturing and similar to the times of the Cold War if our economies were not intertwined and mutually dependent on the other.
Millions of people are not sent off to die every couple decades as the early 20th century showed was going to be the norm with an industrialized world.
So you know what, I don't have the answer after all. Selfish multinational big business with no loyalty to any ideals or any nation, and who would abandon the US if profit dictated, may be benefiting us after all.
Now to go price some foreign imports.
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