I agree. We need to increase tarrifs
[QUOTE=dragmerc;578480]how can i find out how much and where the tariff money is going?
even though i buy most parts from American companies, they bought the parts from china and have to pay the tariff.
my costs have gone up along with everyone's.
i'm in favor of bringing manufacturing back here but it will take more than a 10% or 25% tariff to do it.
it would have to be 200% or more.
china parts cost 1/4 or less what they would here and no company is willing to spend money on tooling for such a small profit.
and can you imagine all the crying if prices went up 200%?
what is the answer?[/QUOTE]
Increase the tarriffs on products made in China until the US manufactures that moved to China move back here. Labor costs are the reason why they all moved away to foreign soil. We expect to make much more money for our work here in the USA. They have billions of people in China willing to work for peanuts.
Cheap labor vs high cost labor is the problem
[QUOTE=dragmerc;578595]please explain how paying $2 for a part that i can buy in china for 25 cents would keep my costs from going up.
i try to buy American but can't. the parts are not made here.[/QUOTE]
It nearly impossible to compete against foreign countries that have very cheap labor. We could isolated ourselves but would that really work? Let's face it, americans need more money as we have or want a higher life style and that requires more money. Everyone is searching for that big bucks job or a business that can make them billions of dollars. It's too easy to up and move a US factory to China or Mexico or some other country overseas where they will work for peanuts all day long. Try to get someone here in America to work 18 hour days for $2/day or even $2/hr. You can't hardly find anyone other than some teenagers that will work for cheap. And by cheap I mean mininum wage of $6 or $7/ hr or what ever the US min wage is these days. Heck when I was a teenager I worked for $1.25/hr as a life guard. I was thrilled when I got a union sheet metal job that paid $4.23/hr and I got 1.5x overtime. I was able to buy one of the most sought after sports car back in 1973. Back then Evansville had many factories here. They are almost all gone. The only few left are plastic factories. Whirlpool, Arkla, Evansville Veneer, Sterline Brewers, Zenith, General Mills, Kent Plastics, George Koch and Son's Plant #2 just to name a few off the top of my head. The only jobs left are retail and service jobs. Now we have ALCOA, GE or Sabic which is now owned by Saudi Arabia, And then there is Toyota which is owned by the Japanese.
I don't have an answer for this problem. But I know it's a big problem. This is not the America I grew up in as a young man.
Should we close our boarders off to all cheap foreign imports and force them to be made here in the States? Prices would surely go up if that happened. What I worry about is our national security with our weapons production depends on foreign countries like China. What if we could not product F35's or Virgina Class Submarines or Aircraft Carriers anymore because the Chinese cut off all the electronic parts that we need to make those weapons?