Re: PING! Michael

On Sat, 23 Nov 2024 1:49:18 +0000, Michael Trew wrote:

On 11/22/2024 12:08 PM, Cindy Hamilton wrote:

On 2024-11-22, Carol <cshenk@virginia-beach.com> wrote:

Michael Trew wrote:

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I shouldn't think that import tariffs will affect the price of
butter, unless it's butter from Europe, which is already sold at a
premium here.

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I think the idea is 'buy American'.  Butter is mostly made here for our
markets.

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Yeah, let us know how 'buy American' goes.  We just don't have factories
making stuff anymore.  People will pay the tariffs and inflation will
rise.

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I guess the hope is that by making foreign parts unreasonably expensive,
it will become less expensive to start manufacturing them over here
again.  Apparently, since the microchip shortage, new factories are
being built somewhere vaguely near Leo's part of the US so we can make
our own semiconductors.
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Recently, I bought a 1965 Packard Bell color television console.  It was
all made in the USA, in Los Angeles.  It's a wonder that it found its
way to the east coast all of these years later.  I like the round color
picture tube with the corners cut off, it's so quaint.
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Sorry for the DSI1 style slide off-topic, but I guess my point is that
we could make our own televisions and electronics in the US again, like
we did in the "good 'ole days".

Mahalo for dragging my ass into this discussion. Tariffs make sense for
some items. Electric cars from China, for instance. The cars are so
cheap that they could destroy American car manufacturing. A 20% tariff
would be fine. The money collected by the government could be used to
pay for my SS payments, or education, or to supplement gas taxes. People
would still buy Chinese cars even with a 20% premium. It's a win-win
situation. Of course, you can forget about any notions of this country
being a free market economy.
I don't want no stinkin' American made TV. Paying more for a product
that's not made in this county anyway is dumb.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ldI8MmaQybM