Re: PING! Michael

On 11/22/2024 8:49 PM, 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.

 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.
 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.
 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".

Sure, made in the USA has a lot of good benefits.  One is the price of TV.  My first made in the USA television was a 19" portable, black and white, of course.  Today, that would cost about $1200.
Would you buy that today and support local jobs, or would you buy the 55" flat screen for about $400?
If you are going to build a TV factory, don't put it in Florida.  I just read that we have more job openings than job seekers
We have to keep the proper balance of jobs, costs, tariffs, taxes.