Lan Barnes wrote:
Personally, I'm against
tariffs and protectionism... they're artificial restraints on free trade
that the market will attempt to route around. And they invite
retaliation. Trade wars are bad for a meshed global economy.
Perfect agreement.
So, John, Lan, and anyone else, what is the answer to competing with manufacturing markets
that basically have forced and child labor? What do we do to compete when we (the US,
other countries as well) have laws that prevent certain unfair or downright immoral
business and labor practices where foreign countries (such as China) do not? Such
countries are able to undercut our labor rates by such an extent that there is absolutely
no way to compete. (NOTE: I've seen numerous hearings and investigations into many
corporations - Nike and Wal Mart to name just two - that have shown these practices to be
very wide spread.)
How do we keep manufacturing jobs in this country when it's so damn cheap to mfg.
elsewhere? People in general don't care how it's made or who gets exploited to make it as
long as they have cheap goods to buy, not realizing that such practices just reduce the
amount of jobs and income in our own economy.
If there were no incentives to have goods manufactured off shore, or buy foreign goods,
then maybe we'd keep more of those types of jobs in the US. On the other hand, how do we
force other countries to impose stiffer labor laws so that people are not exploited and
produces a more fair playing ground?
PGA
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