Re: Forbes: "Budget To Nowhere"

On Wed, 6 Feb 2008 05:47:20 -0600, "John Galt"
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"Rumpelstiltskin" <PleaseDoNotReplyByEmail@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message


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Of course people are always going to try to get the best bang
for the buck. That's what people do, that's what I do, that's what
everybody does.

It's not what the Japanese do.



They don't?

They don't. They have a documented tendency to pay more for Japanese goods.
Obviously, HUGE price disparities will alter that behavior, but they will
pay a bit more for domestic goods, as will most Asians, for that matter.


That's very socially conscious of the Japanese. They
don't need tariffs if they behave thus consistently. Other
nationalities don't behave that way though, and aren't
about to start. Any that did, wouldn't need tariffs to
protect their home industries, of course. The USA is not
in that situation, as evidenced by the fact that native
industry has largely disappeared. That wasn't much of
an argument you made for your case against tariffs, was it.

You seem to not mind the effect of tariffs, since you
don't object to the Japanese producing the same effect.
You just object to actual tariffs. That really doesn't make
sense. Is your non-objection to the Japanese way
based on the idea that some of them would cheat, and
therefore "free trade" would be implemented to that
extent, but only that extent? That's the only possibility
that even begins to work, but of course it doesn't stand
up to reason any better.




There are also many situations where the price difference between domestic
and imported simply doesn't matter. I picked up some very nice casual
stemware at Wal Mart a week ago, made in the USA, a buck a glass. And
there's always a domestic car that's as good of a "deal" as an imported one,
if you look at price only.



American believe that American cars are pretty crappy
compared to Japanese cars, whether or not one feels that's
true, so those aren't equivalent goods. As to other things,
if native stuff costs no more than imported stuff, why are
imported things being offered for sale and bought in
preference to native stuff? If they aren't, then there's no
problem of course. If they are, then why?

Not very good arguments against tariffs here.


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