re: So, about that tariff: Just got hit with $11K adder notice

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Slash taxes, end regulations, kill minimum wage, and blow up unions and guess what? We’ll fricking compete.

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Go to a country where people live at the factory they work at and sleep on cardboard in front of the press they're running.

It might change your thought process.

I have

frick Kiaping City, China.

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Slash taxes

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Check.... and you quoted me saying that.

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end regulations

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Have been.

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blow up unions and guess what? We’ll fricking compete. 

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No you won't. Unless our federal gov is going to pay a company from tax dollars to lower the price to below profit value you will not compete with a communist or socialist nation. That is a disadvantage of trading with them.

It is a nice thought, but its simply not true. Worded differently... if a Chinese company makes steel and sells it at a loss of 10$.... how does a USA company sell it for the same? Answer.... they can't without the US gov doing the same. So what's the answer?

The answer is you place a tariff to level the playing field. The result is that the US can compete is a level playing field. Or better yet.... stop trading with communist countries!

A tariff in this age works. Why? China needs the US market. Its why you see companies openning here.

In short, no. We can not compete with a nation who is selling products at a loss.