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American Ruins: Gary's Once and Future Terminal.
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[quote user="edblysard"]<p>Ok,</p><p>Lets try this...</p><p>Assume AG gets the Antigates Motherboard Company(AMC) up and running...where will the company purchase the basic product...the wafer board, the machines to drill the board, the capacitors and such...the automated solderer and laser cutters...all that stuff?</p><p>And American made computers to run the program to do the work...from who would you purchase them?</p><p>My bet is that almost all of that is made overseas, so you would be adding to the container traffic with the purchases...and which Americans will do to small amount of assembly needed, if any?</p><p>[/quote]</p><p> </p><p>The current "problem" did not comeabout overnight, so it would be foolish to assume a workable solution could be implemented overnight as well. Where did we get our needed componentry BEFORE there were factories in Asia to draw from? Right here. I seriously don't see the legitimacy of throwing in the towel, and saying "it's too late , we're too far gone, we have to roll with the punches ever after.</p><p>Tarriffs can work quite well ,</p><p> </p><p>Maintain perspective please that the tariffs do not by them selves create an overnight prohibition upon import, they just level the playing field on the cost of production.</p><p> </p><p>If you are Ed Motorola, and are building walkie talkies, you can continue to buy your capacitors abroad, albeit at a price roughly equivalent (by virtue of the tariff) to your cost of procuring them domestically. </p><p> </p><p>A smart way to implement such incentives would be to phase them in, incrementally. Perhaps over a 5-7 year period with a certain additional percentage kicking in each year, giving the means of production time to tool up, and an incentive to not be lagging. </p><p>And my guess is that if Ed knows that in 8 years that imported capacitor will cost him 110% of a domestically aquired one...he'll prioritize accordingly. </p><p>These sniveling excuses by some of the corporate appologists trying to plea that we are beyond some mythical point of no return, are just trying to smokescreen their ambition to preserve the status quo.</p><p> Don't blame 'em for trying, but I refuse to sympatize with them.</p><p> </p><p>The real shame is, if you ask me, that we didn't start about 12 years ago. We'd be sitting pretty by now. </p><p> </p><p> </p>
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