The point of the tariffs is to raise the price of imported goods in order to make US made alternatives more competitive. I'm not sure if it's the right move, but I think continuing to fund a country that is most likely going to be our major enemy in the next war by purchasing mountains of cheap crap from them isn't a good idea.
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. I'm betting people wouldn't be willing to buy as much stuff or would choose products with a lower price to cost ratio if they had that info.
How about businesses saying how much more expensive your products are because of labor unions, OSHA nonsense, environmental laws, and general anti-business regulations, and how China doesn't deal with any of that.
Or here's a good one from elsewhere in society: force colleges to publish the difference in SAT scores between their average black student and average white student in their incoming class, and staple that on to every rejection letter they send out to white kids.
OSHA is a good thing. The company I work for would never enforce safety standards or give us PPE if they weren't at risk for getting in trouble with OSHA. You'd see a lot more men getting permanently injured or killed.
Yes, some OSHA is a good thing, some of it is unnecessary and expensive and only protects complete morons, and I wouldn't be surprised if there were the usual problems of there being a revolving door between OSHA administrators and executives at companies that make the equipment OSHA mandates, but this is actually all besides the point: Even if OSHA saved a billion lives a year and every policy was wonderful, as long as the US has it and China doesn't, that's an uneven playing field. The choice, assuming zero tariffs, isn't actually between keeping Americans safe or not keeping them safe, it's between not keeping them safe and keeping some of them safer and some of them losing their jobs because they can't compete with countries that don't have those regulations. My actual position isn't that OSHA should be entirely eliminated (although it could certainly be greatly improved), it's that all the regulations I mentioned, including OSHA, should come with a tariff of some appropriate value on all countries that don't enforce an equivalent regulation, or in the long run you're not keeping people safe, you're just moving jobs to China. Having companies put the "OSHA tax" on price tags would help people understand the actual implications of the policies they support.
The point of the tariffs is to raise the price of imported goods in order to make US made alternatives more competitive. I'm not sure if it's the right move, but I think continuing to fund a country that is most likely going to be our major enemy in the next war by purchasing mountains of cheap crap from them isn't a good idea.
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. I'm betting people wouldn't be willing to buy as much stuff or would choose products with a lower price to cost ratio if they had that info.
You want transparency?
How about businesses saying how much more expensive your products are because of labor unions, OSHA nonsense, environmental laws, and general anti-business regulations, and how China doesn't deal with any of that.
Or here's a good one from elsewhere in society: force colleges to publish the difference in SAT scores between their average black student and average white student in their incoming class, and staple that on to every rejection letter they send out to white kids.
OSHA is a good thing. The company I work for would never enforce safety standards or give us PPE if they weren't at risk for getting in trouble with OSHA. You'd see a lot more men getting permanently injured or killed.
Some of it is a good thing, some of it is retarded busywork for union gangsters to create empty jobs.
Yes, some OSHA is a good thing, some of it is unnecessary and expensive and only protects complete morons, and I wouldn't be surprised if there were the usual problems of there being a revolving door between OSHA administrators and executives at companies that make the equipment OSHA mandates, but this is actually all besides the point: Even if OSHA saved a billion lives a year and every policy was wonderful, as long as the US has it and China doesn't, that's an uneven playing field. The choice, assuming zero tariffs, isn't actually between keeping Americans safe or not keeping them safe, it's between not keeping them safe and keeping some of them safer and some of them losing their jobs because they can't compete with countries that don't have those regulations. My actual position isn't that OSHA should be entirely eliminated (although it could certainly be greatly improved), it's that all the regulations I mentioned, including OSHA, should come with a tariff of some appropriate value on all countries that don't enforce an equivalent regulation, or in the long run you're not keeping people safe, you're just moving jobs to China. Having companies put the "OSHA tax" on price tags would help people understand the actual implications of the policies they support.