Asking this because it’s known that the reason everything’s been offshored is for profit, so I’m curious as to how much people here are willing to pay extra for a product if it gets made in the US again. 10% extra? 20%? 30%? How much of a markup for American labor is too much?
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It's not about "pay extra". It's about finally not having an artificial surplus of illegal labor.
Labor is subject to supply and demand the same as any other commodity, meaning that aliens, or even the participation of foreigners in the economy, is guaranteed to have a negative effect on the average American. Wage depreciation being a prime example of that.
Made in America should be the default, and imports should be heavily taxed, combined with the mass expulsion of foreigners.
That's what the chicken tax is, and it's why Chrysler, Ford, and GM were even able to survive in the truck market after the 70s. The Japanese came into the market and completely dominated them in terms of reliability, and the market noticed this. So the big 3 went crying to daddy government and got them to fuck over the Japanese by taxing their trucks to the point that people were willing to put up with a piece of shit Ford just because it was cheaper. Now you have basically no small cheap trucks anymore.