Americans, what are the benefits to paying more?

[lightbulb27]

That's the reality of tariffs... more expensive stuff, prices go up.

* Stop being so wasteful

* Find more efficient ways to live life

* Do away with things you don't need and are wasting your time (TV,

China:

Cell phones - you keep your existing phone longer, saving resources. Maybe you never buy another one. The earths resources preserved. You stop breaking your phone and repair what you've got

TV's - you stop wasting your time on TV or keep the TV you have.

Clothes - you buy less clothes, you sew up the old ones... like your grandma did. You learn to value what you have. Our generation is beyond wasteful... and they don't know it.

Paper towels - you switch to washable cloth

Disposable coffee cups - no more... you bring your own cup and they wash it. How could you be so wasteful all along?

Mother Earth is crying, now you are listening!

Mexico:

You pay more for produce. Frankly, if you are willing to pay $1.00 more for an avocado, that $ should have been going to the mexican doing the work. So remove the tariff, and pay the laboror.

Other:

You ride your bicycle more and save fuel.

What other benefits do you see?

[exitseven]

America creates tens of thousands of good paying jobs so those employees will but cars and have homes built. Then they need to buy refrigerators and clothes washers. That creates more jobs for more people so wages go up. When you buy foreign made goods that money leaves the country and does not come back until China comes back to buy thousands of acres of farmland. When you buy made in USA that money is reinvested in America.

[lightbulb27]

yes, it's good all the junk china made is going to break and once we have appliance factories, we can buy local again... maybe that stuff will last and be maintainable.
Agree, china just taakes our money to buy our stuff of value... land, technology. japan did same.

[exitseven]

@lightbulb27 Buy Speed Queen washers and dryers. Made in USA and way better than the imported ones.

[lightbulb27]

100% right i have. Fridges need to be next!

[exitseven]

Kitchen Aid

[DJB72]

A non-american's perspective would be that about 90% of what the US imports now from overseas used to be manufactured in the country using raw materials from the country. Instead of paying to import from a foreign manufacturer it makes sense to manufacture locally.

The same is true for the UK, but unfortunately Starmer would need another two functional braincells to be qualified as an amoeba at this point.

[Anonymous]

Its very simple. Continuely buying from a rivial nation like china that does not trade fairly with your country and is a competitor in almost every manufactured goods you produce is crazy and short sighted.

For instance what if china flooded the us market with cheaper cars from car companies subsidised by the Chinese government. Not only would millions of jobs be lost but trillions in tax revenue domestically and abroad would be gone. And the US car industry once gone would never come back and when the dust settles and there is no other competing car companies the Chinese could charge whatever they wanted and people would have to pay.

Can't get this through to people but that's exactly what the Chinese intend to do if we let them and US wealth will continue to drop.

Tariffs aren't democrat vs Republican, even Biden was bringing in tariffs.

[AviatorTom]

Prices always go up, that's the definition of a healthy economy. The question is how much do they go up, and are there other economic benefits, like more in-country jobs, or better national security?

What does Greta Thornberg have to do with this "paying more" question? She's a radical activist involved with climate change, thinking that we humans can change what our planet has been doing for millenia.

[Shiprex]

LOL the last one. American'S riding bikes? Regularly? Like to work? NOPE when there's 2000kg fossil fuel powered chairs to take you there then THAT'S the America we know

[lightbulb27]

yes as long as that slippery black goo is available, they won't be peddling.
But I will!

[exitseven]

@-what- happens if you work 50 miles away from where you live? What do you do in the winter? What happens when you try and cut off a box truck?

[Shiprex]

@exitseven We have trains and trams as well as buses that get lots of people around safely without the need for 7.5 V8 2500kg trucks to ferry our asses 3km to the grocery store for more chips and dip

[exitseven]

@Shiprex Thr public transportation here is a joke. If there is an inch of snow the trins run late, You stand on the platform and freeze you butt off. Then sometimes the cars catch on fire.
Even when they are running on time it takes 2 hours to go 15 miles. Who can deal with that? It's not cheap either.

[Shiprex]

@exitseven Buses then should be encouraged though and when your state makes a company to compete with the rest of the commercial ones you know the prices will be what they should be. Some places where I lived before had the state control the prices of public transport because it would make it easy for everyone to afford and they made parking exorbitantly expensive to help pay for it.

[exitseven]

This state is home to the most expensive public transport system per mile the world. It is also one of the worst. Every year they ask for more and more money to "fix"the system and every year it gets a little worse. I have not ridden it in maybe 20 years.

[Shiprex]

@exitseven It's probably unregulated and not state supported. Basically the "market" will screw the poor and reward the rich to the point that no one will bother using services provided for because politics allows for commercial enterprise to win over civilian services

[exitseven]

@Shiprex It is 100% state supported. That is the problem. It is a democrat state and very corrupt. A lot of the family members of politicians are working for the T

[lightbulb27]

I rode my bike to get food and take care of business. E power!!:)

[Shiprex]

@exitseven If it's being done for profit then the system is too bloated and not being forced into use. I bet the parking rates in towns are next to zero and that there's no road fund licence to pay to the state that can be used to support public transport system.

[Shiprex]

I walked to the shops today all 2 km of it just to post a letter and bring back some bread.

[exitseven]

@Shiprex I would never depend on public transportation. I drive my 8 cylinder Ford F-150 pickup truck anywhere I need to go.

[Shiprex]

@exitseven That's the problem. YOU prefer convenience to move 3000kg for a single person to go from A to B. Wasting energy

[exitseven]

@Shiprex In America we have a culture built around the automobile. People moved out the the suburbs and beyond to places where there was no real alternative but to drive a car. You went to the supermarket and you had to drive there. People work many miles from where they live. Public transportation is often to slow and unreliable to really be considered/

[Shiprex]

@exitseven I know this and that is the sad thing about it. Even well established nations from Europe were able to adapt to wide scale public transport systems that were imposed by wise leadership that saw benefit on collective. Even new civilisations have built around public transport that can shift millions of people to and from work without the need for everyone having a convenience mentality of self transport. It's what taxes are spent on rather than supporting corporations to set up businesses when they're already profitable.

[DrPepper12]

Paying more is just a SMALL part of the privilege of supporting Dear Leader!

[Avicenna]

Of course a highly-paid and pampered public sector employee like yourself would never saintly to care about those rubes in flyover country that have been very negatively affected by Chinese overproduction, slave and child labor, subsidies to producers, cheap loans from state-owned banks to manufacturers commanded to produce more, dumping, and, currency manipulation, would you? You’re too busy looking down on them.

Your betters in the EU and elsewhere have put tariffs on China. Are you going to denounce them for your Marxist masters?

[pacificopete]

Tariffs serve primarily protect domestic industries by raising the price of foreign products, potentially encouraging consumers to buy locally instead.

[lightbulb27]

That was not the question… reread.

[pacificopete]

"Americans, what are the benefits to paying more?"

To support local businesses.

[TwoToTooTutu2]

The main idea is to make American made goods cheaper than imported slave labor Chinesium Spyware.

It's an attempt to boost American industry.

[Anonymous]

Trump is a genius