Why should I improve the quality of a product if a tariff is keeping competition at bay? I don't need to compete on quality or price. Why bother with a tariff? Let's just just have a centrally controlled pricing structure for all consumer goods. If someone's not making enough profit, we'll just command a price increase. Too much profit? Cut prices.
If the pistons don't make contact with the cylinder bore, they can both be made from the same material and the CoE will be the same. Or you can just use a coating on the bore, like they have been for 50 years, and not worry about it at all. Sleeveless cylinders are not a new thing.
But it's got chemicals in it. It's not natural. Chemicals are bad for your body. Chemicals cause cancer and make toxins build up. Because chemicals are toxic. Corporations make chemicals and put them in our food. They want to poison us.
Not possible. Our brilliant education system has decided jobs making stuff aren't worth a shit. The mechanical ineptitute of you people today is shocking.
I make a specialty, custom, niche product that is very dependent on quality. My market is relatively small. China doesn't compete because it's not worth their time, and because they aren't capable.
China doesn't have the west by the balls. I'll put it this way.
If you owe a government $10,000 and don't pay, you've got a big problem. If you owe the government $1,000,000,000,000,000 and don't pay? Then, the government has a big problem. China has a big problem if they piss us off and we walk away (so do we of course).
Who ends up paying the tariffs? The people making the product in question, the people buying it, or the people buying the alternative whose price has climbed to just below the price of the imported product?
Corporate elite? I wish. I have a company where I am the CEO, engineer, IT department, secretary, grunt labor, and janitor. My "elite" company is affected by those policies you prefer. They affect my costs, my product, and my quality of life. I wish I could always, or even most of the time, say for the better, but that is not the case. Thankfully I don't have competition from China, or even outside the country. Yet. Keep making it harder for me to make stuff, and eventually I will.
It should also be noted, that you don't allow me to do anything. The people give consent to be taxed and regulated. If that consent is abused, it can also be revoked. There's a few ways that can happen. It generally doesn't work out well for the people that think it is their job to "allow" people to be successful.
Right, because that's the only alternative to policies that destroy american manufacturing. Miniscule tax rates, slave labor, and toxic water supplies. I'll forgive a mistake but not willful idiocy. Destructive regulations, punitive tariffs, and public shaming. Yes. That sounds like a country I want to live in. What flavor of authoritarian do you consider yourself?
You left out tax policy, environmental policy, and labor policy as well. Those are more responsible for gutting the manufacturing base. I speak as a manufacturer.
No, the way to have a free speech society, is to have a free speech society. No special privileges for favored groups. No one gets more free speech than someone else. If you have a free speech society, it's not necessary to ensure any one group has the ability to speak out against another. All groups have the ability to speak out, as it should be.
Hey idiot. If the State starts going door to door, people recognize it for what it is. If the State has technology to monitor everything without neighbors tattling on neighbors, or having to go door to door, it can achieve it's objectives much more carefully and silently. Right now, we get to talk about how invasive the surveillance is. Right now, Barack Obama could give a rat's ass about what we say about it, he just continues to do it anyway, and pretends to not be responsible. All this talking about it, what has it accomplished? Nothing. Why should the State fear us talking about it? If you talk about it publicly you get branded a racist, audited by the IRS, and destroyed. The surveillance continues, and the juggernaut grows larger.
Yes, we could. But unfortunately he was just re-elected. Maybe if we held the person who is in charge of the NSA, TSA and the IRS accountable for their actions, we'd start to get somewhere. But you can read the hundreds of posts above, and people seem to be reluctant to even mention his name. How things have changed.
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Why are you afraid of something that by definition is incapable of harming you?
Where do you live?
Why should I improve the quality of a product if a tariff is keeping competition at bay? I don't need to compete on quality or price. Why bother with a tariff? Let's just just have a centrally controlled pricing structure for all consumer goods. If someone's not making enough profit, we'll just command a price increase. Too much profit? Cut prices.
Or a sleeveless cylinder; 50 year old technology.
If the pistons don't make contact with the cylinder bore, they can both be made from the same material and the CoE will be the same. Or you can just use a coating on the bore, like they have been for 50 years, and not worry about it at all. Sleeveless cylinders are not a new thing.
But it's got chemicals in it. It's not natural. Chemicals are bad for your body. Chemicals cause cancer and make toxins build up. Because chemicals are toxic. Corporations make chemicals and put them in our food. They want to poison us.
So you mean they have the same affect as natural sweeteners or whole wheat bread, but without the calories? Idiot.
Can I see some of these peer-reviewed studies showing ill affects from artificial sweeteners?
Oops, you=young. Damn uneditable comments.
Not possible. Our brilliant education system has decided jobs making stuff aren't worth a shit. The mechanical ineptitute of you people today is shocking.
I make a specialty, custom, niche product that is very dependent on quality. My market is relatively small. China doesn't compete because it's not worth their time, and because they aren't capable.
China doesn't have the west by the balls. I'll put it this way.
If you owe a government $10,000 and don't pay, you've got a big problem. If you owe the government $1,000,000,000,000,000 and don't pay? Then, the government has a big problem. China has a big problem if they piss us off and we walk away (so do we of course).
Who ends up paying the tariffs? The people making the product in question, the people buying it, or the people buying the alternative whose price has climbed to just below the price of the imported product?
Corporate elite? I wish. I have a company where I am the CEO, engineer, IT department, secretary, grunt labor, and janitor. My "elite" company is affected by those policies you prefer. They affect my costs, my product, and my quality of life. I wish I could always, or even most of the time, say for the better, but that is not the case. Thankfully I don't have competition from China, or even outside the country. Yet. Keep making it harder for me to make stuff, and eventually I will.
It should also be noted, that you don't allow me to do anything. The people give consent to be taxed and regulated. If that consent is abused, it can also be revoked. There's a few ways that can happen. It generally doesn't work out well for the people that think it is their job to "allow" people to be successful.
Right, because that's the only alternative to policies that destroy american manufacturing. Miniscule tax rates, slave labor, and toxic water supplies. I'll forgive a mistake but not willful idiocy. Destructive regulations, punitive tariffs, and public shaming. Yes. That sounds like a country I want to live in. What flavor of authoritarian do you consider yourself?
You left out tax policy, environmental policy, and labor policy as well. Those are more responsible for gutting the manufacturing base. I speak as a manufacturer.
I love how tax breaks = Roman bread. You utterly failed at that analogy. Food stamps/welfare = Roman Bread.
No, the way to have a free speech society, is to have a free speech society. No special privileges for favored groups. No one gets more free speech than someone else. If you have a free speech society, it's not necessary to ensure any one group has the ability to speak out against another. All groups have the ability to speak out, as it should be.
That's exactly what I'd expect a fascist to say.
The real shame is that there are now scientists walking around that got their degrees based on a faked master's thesis.
Hey idiot. If the State starts going door to door, people recognize it for what it is. If the State has technology to monitor everything without neighbors tattling on neighbors, or having to go door to door, it can achieve it's objectives much more carefully and silently. Right now, we get to talk about how invasive the surveillance is. Right now, Barack Obama could give a rat's ass about what we say about it, he just continues to do it anyway, and pretends to not be responsible. All this talking about it, what has it accomplished? Nothing. Why should the State fear us talking about it? If you talk about it publicly you get branded a racist, audited by the IRS, and destroyed. The surveillance continues, and the juggernaut grows larger.
Actually oppressed as it is societal.
Yes, we could. But unfortunately he was just re-elected. Maybe if we held the person who is in charge of the NSA, TSA and the IRS accountable for their actions, we'd start to get somewhere. But you can read the hundreds of posts above, and people seem to be reluctant to even mention his name. How things have changed.
Italy is really the better model for where we're headed. They were much more interested in the economic side of the ideology.