Torn on this. It's dangerous work, and inflation adjusted wages have been stagnant for 30 years. Lumber should cost more, though it's currently a bit of a commodity bubble. Sustained higher prices should put pressure on upward wages.
However, I don't think for a moment the Biden admin is doing this for the lumber industry. If anything, I expect there to be increased regulatory overhead for the industry, which will line the pockets of compliance officers and lawyers, while also levitating housing prices (equity) to help stave off economic collapse.
Tariffs are pretty great, when you don't regulate their benefit into oblivion.
It sounds a little counterintuitive, but yes. So should iPads and washing machines. If they cost more, Americans can make a decent living producing them, and therefore be able to afford increased costs. Parasitic globalism is why we get cheap goods and shit jobs.
Lumber is milled in the USA from timber grown in the US and Canada.
The assembly cost for a smart phone wold be an additional five dollars per unit of manufactured in the United States. Maybe less now. That cost estimate was based on the last Motorola phone assembled in the US in 2013. Chinese labor costs have been rising. The real trick is that all of the components manufacturers have moved to China. Bill Clinton Bush and Obama shipped all these companies overseas.
Democrats literally burned down cities for their corporate overlords and the plebs praised them for it. If the sheep aren't aware of the problem yet, nothing will rouse them.
Can Jon Layman still order takeout via grubhub while streaming globohomo propaganda on his TV in his air conditioned apartment?
Then he’ll sleep.
Plus, we’re not even at the level of violence of the 60s, much less that of the wave of terror brought upon by the Russian Intelligentsia leading up to the Bolshevik Revolution.
The latter may be soon to come, but it’s still too calm and stable for the general public to rise to action.
Four years ago the story was that Canada was dumping lumber into the US market while being trying to protect their tiny dairy industry from US imports.
In principle I won't oppose more tariffs.
Now, it might not be the best timing to escalate a trade war, but, if the democrats want to double down on shooting themselves in the foot, I'm not gonna stop them.
Yep. Time to start looking for pallets to break down for small projects. I have no idea how people who are doing work on their houses are going to get by though.
They're only ponying up like 15mm. It's mostly momentum at this point. If the marijuana industry would stop being such fucking stoners, they could easily invest in enough politicians to see their industry flourish.
Torn on this. It's dangerous work, and inflation adjusted wages have been stagnant for 30 years. Lumber should cost more, though it's currently a bit of a commodity bubble. Sustained higher prices should put pressure on upward wages.
However, I don't think for a moment the Biden admin is doing this for the lumber industry. If anything, I expect there to be increased regulatory overhead for the industry, which will line the pockets of compliance officers and lawyers, while also levitating housing prices (equity) to help stave off economic collapse.
Tariffs are pretty great, when you don't regulate their benefit into oblivion.
I just can’t wait for the Reeeeeing from the land of castros bastard son. Especially as much as they hated trump now they get this instead....
Gonna laugh if the next housing crisis cascades out of leafland.
The boss doesnt pay more because profits are higher.
No, but the boss does pay more to incentivize an expanded workforce, when it's profitable. Same shit is going on with hazmat drivers.
Lumber should cost more?
It sounds a little counterintuitive, but yes. So should iPads and washing machines. If they cost more, Americans can make a decent living producing them, and therefore be able to afford increased costs. Parasitic globalism is why we get cheap goods and shit jobs.
Lumber is milled in the USA from timber grown in the US and Canada.
The assembly cost for a smart phone wold be an additional five dollars per unit of manufactured in the United States. Maybe less now. That cost estimate was based on the last Motorola phone assembled in the US in 2013. Chinese labor costs have been rising. The real trick is that all of the components manufacturers have moved to China. Bill Clinton Bush and Obama shipped all these companies overseas.
Democrats literally burned down cities for their corporate overlords and the plebs praised them for it. If the sheep aren't aware of the problem yet, nothing will rouse them.
I’ve been saying that for ages now:
Can Jon Layman still order takeout via grubhub while streaming globohomo propaganda on his TV in his air conditioned apartment?
Then he’ll sleep.
Plus, we’re not even at the level of violence of the 60s, much less that of the wave of terror brought upon by the Russian Intelligentsia leading up to the Bolshevik Revolution.
The latter may be soon to come, but it’s still too calm and stable for the general public to rise to action.
Indifferent.
Four years ago the story was that Canada was dumping lumber into the US market while being trying to protect their tiny dairy industry from US imports.
In principle I won't oppose more tariffs.
Now, it might not be the best timing to escalate a trade war, but, if the democrats want to double down on shooting themselves in the foot, I'm not gonna stop them.
Wait, I thought it was evil Orange Man who supported tariffs?
FUCK YOU.
You already can't buy a 2x4 without selling a kidney.
Get fucked.
Yep. Time to start looking for pallets to break down for small projects. I have no idea how people who are doing work on their houses are going to get by though.
Keep waiting for hemp based plywood to take off. Seems like a no-brainer, other than Big Lumber killing it nearly a century ago.
They're only ponying up like 15mm. It's mostly momentum at this point. If the marijuana industry would stop being such fucking stoners, they could easily invest in enough politicians to see their industry flourish.
Good for the southern yellow pine folks.