Regarding transparency, I'm all for it: let's also itemize all of our bills to show what the company paid for raw materials, production, shipping, and wages.
Yeah.
the White House denounced the move as a "hostile and political act."
Perhaps that's the motivation, but I agree the transparency is good, and people paying attention will likely reach different conclusions than just Orange Man Bad.
I also think all taxes should be marked, as the more visible taxes are, the less people will tolerate them.
The point of the tariffs is to raise the price of imported goods in order to make US made alternatives more competitive.
Correct. If a $119 swimsuit jumps to $360, maybe buy an American made one for $150 or whatever. Or, you know, $30 or something. That's also an option.
But, yeah, if foreign slave labor gets more expensive, that creates more incentive to buy and more importantly produce American goods. That $360 swimsuit is a massive business opportunity for Americans.
But these people pushing this type of stuff think that is impossible without the Chinese slave labor. And not a product of people being either too lazy or too greedy to leave China for somewhere else. I know right now, there is a growing anger on Reddit and Twitter over the fact that Cover/Hololive merch is now extremely expensive. But as much as I like Holo and think Cover is a company that is pretty good in the Vtuber industry, I have to just say it: They did it to themselves.
How do I know it is a Cover problem and not a merch-in-general problem? Because I have gotten merch from other companies or Indie Vtubers that hasnt had a massive tariff tacked on the price. So either these people are eating the cost of a 150% tariff for the good of their own fans (lol), or they source their things from places other than China (unlike Cover) so they are paying a significantly lower tariff. And hell, more than a few of them source from the US, and the price difference pre-tariff is only like $15, and from past experience is usually higher quality.
Yeah.
Perhaps that's the motivation, but I agree the transparency is good, and people paying attention will likely reach different conclusions than just Orange Man Bad.
I also think all taxes should be marked, as the more visible taxes are, the less people will tolerate them.
Correct. If a $119 swimsuit jumps to $360, maybe buy an American made one for $150 or whatever. Or, you know, $30 or something. That's also an option.
But, yeah, if foreign slave labor gets more expensive, that creates more incentive to buy and more importantly produce American goods. That $360 swimsuit is a massive business opportunity for Americans.
But these people pushing this type of stuff think that is impossible without the Chinese slave labor. And not a product of people being either too lazy or too greedy to leave China for somewhere else. I know right now, there is a growing anger on Reddit and Twitter over the fact that Cover/Hololive merch is now extremely expensive. But as much as I like Holo and think Cover is a company that is pretty good in the Vtuber industry, I have to just say it: They did it to themselves.
How do I know it is a Cover problem and not a merch-in-general problem? Because I have gotten merch from other companies or Indie Vtubers that hasnt had a massive tariff tacked on the price. So either these people are eating the cost of a 150% tariff for the good of their own fans (lol), or they source their things from places other than China (unlike Cover) so they are paying a significantly lower tariff. And hell, more than a few of them source from the US, and the price difference pre-tariff is only like $15, and from past experience is usually higher quality.