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Earlier quoted context omitted.
Yes, because Apple lost their trade secrets by having their factories in China, right?
Perhaps they actually did lose some manufacturing process secrets, how are we in a position to tell?
"The automaker recently announced that import tariffs and transportation costs will push the price of its Model S in China to $121,000, or roughly 50 percent more than the plug-in sedan costs in the U.S."
We'll never hear it mentioned in American news, but we had import tariffs up until the 80s when we adopted supply-side economics as our ideology. We wonder why our manufacturing has all gone overseas, well there is actually a very simple explanation. Other countries still protect their manufacturing with tariffs while we don't. American workers can't compete with countries that have no minimum wage, no environmental protections, and few (if any) anti-corruption laws that are actually enforced. In fact if you go back far enough (and this might appeal to skeptics with a libertarian slant) tariffs were a primary form of taxation before income tax. I wish we could at least have an open debate about bringing some of them back, with projections and an honest analysis of what it would do for American industry. But with corporations seeking ever-lower costs by design, and politicians ramming through the TPP at top speed, I don't see it happening any time soon.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
Yes, because Apple lost their trade secrets by having their factories in China, right?
Perhaps they actually did lose some manufacturing process secrets, how are we in a position to tell?
So, even if they did lose something, it shouldn't have been much. Which means "making Tesla there == there go your trade secrets" is not necessarily correct.
The next-to-last sentence caught my eye: "The automaker recently announced that import tariffs and transportation costs will push the price of its Model S in China to $121,000, or roughly 50 percent more than the plug-in sedan costs in the U.S." We'll never hear it mentioned in American news, but we had import tariffs up until the 80s when we adopted supply-side economics as our ideology. We wonder why our manufactur…
The next-to-last sentence caught my eye: "The automaker recently announced that import tariffs and transportation costs will push the price of its Model S in China to $121,000, or roughly 50 percent more than the plug-in sedan costs in the U.S." We'll never hear it mentioned in American news, but we had import tariffs up until the 80s when we adopted supply-side economics as our ideology. We wonder why our manufactur…
The next-to-last sentence caught my eye: "The automaker recently announced that import tariffs and transportation costs will push the price of its Model S in China to $121,000, or roughly 50 percent more than the plug-in sedan costs in the U.S." We'll never hear it mentioned in American news, but we had import tariffs up until the 80s when we adopted supply-side economics as our ideology. We wonder why our manufactur…
I hope no one else thinks this is a good idea. The problem isn't corporate control of government stopped this but the fact it would do so much damage to the American economy and maybe start a trade war.
This is going to happen anyway, as China and others can increasingly afford their own cheap goods and don't need to export them to us, and the days of cheap debt are coming to an end very soon. It would just accelerate the erosion of what's left of America's economic fantasy. And none of this even touches on the dumping of US Govt. junk paper by a country like China, which would collapse the economy instantly into either an Argentina / Venezuela style inflation nightmare (as the Fed has to print ever larger sums to keep the government solvent), or a Greece slash & burn scenario.
There goes any trade secrets.
The next-to-last sentence caught my eye: "The automaker recently announced that import tariffs and transportation costs will push the price of its Model S in China to $121,000, or roughly 50 percent more than the plug-in sedan costs in the U.S." We'll never hear it mentioned in American news, but we had import tariffs up until the 80s when we adopted supply-side economics as our ideology. We wonder why our manufactur…