re: If a border tax passes who will quit what they are doing to make underwear??

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Of course---the way to get them is not through tariffs.

The way to get them is through tax reform and making employing people less risky for employers.

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Take that up with mexico. They are the ones putting tariffs on US products. Should the goal not be free trade?

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Trump and the Trumpkins think will arise from his 25% tariff??

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So after being corrected multiple times here, you're determined to remain obtuse.

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So according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, there are 94.3 million who aren't in the labor force.

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FTFY

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But only 5.7 million of those want jobs.

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In what universe is that remotely relevant? If Joe Dropout is 19 and doesn't want a job, does that mean we have to import a low skill/low education worker from the 3rd World to replace his lazy arse?

Fruit of the loom moved their plants from Kentucky to Honduras in 2014. Wonder how they found people to work there...must have been a different time.

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Fruit of the loom moved their plants from Kentucky to Honduras in 2014. Wonder how they found people to work there...must have been a different time.

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Just imagine them trying to find worker when 15% of the entire economy is going to be taxed at 25%.

Now what the Trumpkins that want this tariff will not admit but what will undoubtedly happen is that MOST of the imports will continue and we all will simply pay more for goods thus reducing our standard of living.

There is not enough unemployed labor in the United States to manufacture 10% of what we import. If we start paying people enough to make underwear in this market they are going to have quit some other job to do it. A snowball.

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It is the naive assumption by many here that a border tax will bring back jobs.

If this is true do you think people will quit what they are doing now to take the new jobs like sewing underwear or making Christmas lights?

We will have to open the border to find enough labor to met the job demand these people envision such a tax will create?

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Youre right. Better cut the entitlements while we're at it.

What the heck are you talking about obtuse?
It is just fact

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The proposed border-adjustment plan would tax U.S. companies’ domestic sales and imports at a new 20 percent rate, while exempting their exports.

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Still, the border-adjustment concept faces fierce opposition from retailers like Wal-Mart Stores Inc., automakers including Toyota Motor Corp. and oil refiners that rely on imported goods and materials. They argue the tax will be passed along to U.S. consumers, who’ll face higher prices for everyday materials.

Billionaire investor Warren Buffett joined the criticism Monday, saying the plan “would be a big sales tax” and that it would hit “items that are not yachts or anything like that; they’re things that the ordinary person buys.

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You can keep saying those numbers, but it wont make it true.

15% of the economy is not going to be taxed 25%.

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I stand corrected---it is 20% not 25% and 15% of our economy is imports.

You can keep denying it but you are completely wrong.

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It is a legitimate question. The production of underwear is reliant on exporting bulk yarn and cotton and then importing the finished product. Fruit of the Loom, Hanesbrands, Gildan, etc all rely heavily on this. Fotl does this to the tune of several hundred containers weekly just in and out of little Gulfport, MS.

Just using Fruit as an example, if they were to cease production from central America, in addition to raising the price of underwear, it would effectively close the Port of Gulfport. We would be exchanging well paying, union jobs at a port, for low wage underwear production in a factory. not to mention the drivers, customs brokers and freight forwarders that would be effectively looking for work.

Interesting also that these jobs (underwear production) are in central America, but yet we see droves of immigrants coming north to America for jobs. How well paying do we think underwear production jobs are going to be?

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Excellent example of the consequences of interfering with trade.

No bureaucrat can decide what should have a tariff and what should not.

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I would imagine those folks who worked for Martin Mills(FOL) in St. Martinville,La would like to see that plant brought back. The Lee jeans factory near Bayou La Batre,AL could make a comeback as well. Lots of places would love to get those jobs back.

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I betcha all of that want to work have already found it. The unemployment rate in St. Landry Parish is only 6.5%.