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A first step to winning against China would be to stop relying on them for all of our products.
The only reason they have such power is because they have such lax regulations, forcing companies and consumers in countries with strict regulations (climate, labor, etc.) to buy from them. Essentially we outsource our pollution and slave labor to a different country, but feel good because we have legislation that makes it out of sight, out of mind.
We need leveling tariffs/sanctions so that it is not more economical to skirt around our regulations. Yes, this will dramatically raise the prices of consumer goods. But that is the actual cost of these regulations. Right now we're trying to have our cake and eat it, too, and it doesn't work. All it does is result in more pollution because we have to ship the products across an ocean after they are manufactured to the same polluting standards as many decades ago.
Once that is accomplished, people can make educated votes knowing that voting for "feel good" legislation has a real cost. We can make educated decisions about what is worth it and what is not. And we will bring back American manufacturing.
Time to take you on a journey
I’ll start with an analogy:
Talking about corporations as independent entities is useful in maintains myths but keeps us away from truth.
Let’s take Pepsi vs Coca Cola. Owned by the same Wall Street firms. Along with every other Fortune 500 and beyond.
When you realize they are all connected behind the scenes by the same investor ownership, you begin to understand why corporate initiatives seem so coordinated and uniform (diversity, etc)
Now look at countries in the same way. The entity of ‘China’ people refer to is not real. Just a shell of illusion. Same goes for all of them.
Consider listening to Corbett Report Episode 297: China and the New World Order
You’ll find it.
Seriously, people complain about China while simultaneously supporting their economy.
It's simpler than that.
You offer incentives to manufacture here.
If you have your manufacturing here, you don't pay tariffs; if you manufacture abroad, you pay tariffs.
Don't allow wiggle room.
Either they exit the U.S. market entirely and new companies pick it up, or they bring manufacturing here and reap the benefits.
We need to start using the stick for companies who refuse to manufacture here, and the carrot for those who would.
I disagree. I think we should only have tariffs against countries that do not have comparable regulations to our own.
Once we do that, there is already ample incentive to manufacture domestically (saving on shipping costs).
The only places, then, who manufacture elsewhere are companies based in those countries. These companies would often sooner give up the American market than open an American plant. Since there is no moral justification for this (unlike tariffs based on level of regulation), it's just strongarming countries. It ends up being a spit in the face of American freedoms, as now they may not be able to purchase a unique German car.
The point of the tariffs is so Americans feel the actual cost of their moral legislation, and so that moral legislation actually does something. The point is not to force Americans to buy domestically. Nobody should be forced into buying from one company over the other. That's how innovation dies.