...they import all their wood and their margins aren't that great to begin with...

Ask him why imported wood is cheaper than wood made here in the USA? Wood is heavy, and bulky, making shipping costs over longer distances quite high. So how exactly is a middle-man wood import company able to sell wood below the cost of American wood closer to home?

Now, ask him what the actual manufacturing costs for the wood is. Chances are- if he can find factual data, that he will discover that the manufacturing (plus shipping) costs for that wood is a small fraction of the price compared to US dollars for the same wood. ...

Long story shot, it is the globalist import/export corporations that are controlling the end user prices on ALL of our goods. They set the prices buy buying as low as they can, and selling as high as they can to foolish Americans.

Those foolish Americans think they are getting a "good deal" when we buy some cheap piece of shit press-board "furniture" (often made in China) but, we are actually getting royally screwed because the true price of the product is far, far less than what we end up paying for it. Artificial pricing.

Sure, the consumer pays less than the price of a domestic product, but the profit margin for the middle man (import corp.) is absurdly high.<<----And that is exactly what protectionist tariffs are really targeting- the profit margins of the globalist middle-man import/export price gougers.

Yes, there will be a slight (short lived) sting associated with pulling the globalist blood sucking needle out of the arm of the US consumers who they have been bleeding for the last 30 years by overcharging us for cheap, disposable bullshit. But, we will all be better off, largely due to the increased domestic labor wages, and demand for domestic goods that will come once protectionist tariffs are in place.

Making America self reliant again is a cornerstone of the MAGA agenda. America being self reliant is how our great nation has always operated in the past- prior to George Bush Sr., Bill Clinton, and the globalist, Uni-party swamp changing all of that with their "New World Order" agenda in the 1990's.

America must return to its protectionist tariffs system and, the prosperity that comes from self reliance that our nation is fortunate enough to have access to.

...they import all their wood and their margins aren't that great to begin with...

Ask him why imported wood is cheaper than wood made here in the USA? Wood is heavy, and bulky, making shipping costs over longer distances quite high. So how exactly is a middle-man wood import company able to sell wood below the cost of American wood closer to home?

Now, ask him what the actual manufacturing costs for the wood is. Chances are- if he can find factual data, that he will discover that the manufacturing (plus shipping) costs for that wood is a small fraction of the price compared to US dollars for the same wood. ...

Long story shot, it is the globalist import/export corporations that are controlling the end user prices on ALL of our goods. They set the prices buy buying as low as they can, and selling as high as they can to foolish Americans.

Those foolish Americans think they are getting a "good deal" when we buy some cheap piece of shit press-board "furniture" (made in China) but, we are actually getting royally screwed because the true price of the product is far, far less than what we end up paying for it. Artificial pricing.

Sure, the consumer pays less than the price of a domestic product, but the profit margin for the middle man (import corp.) is absurdly high.<<----And that is exactly what protectionist tariffs are really targeting- the profit margins of the globalist middle-man import/export price gougers.

Yes, there will be a slight (short lived) sting associated with pulling the globalist blood sucking needle out of the arm of the US consumers who they have been bleeding for the last 30 years by overcharging us for cheap, disposable bullshit. But, we will all be better off, largely due to the increased domestic labor wages, and demand for domestic goods that will come once protectionist tariffs are in place.

Making America self reliant again is a cornerstone of the MAGA agenda. America being self reliant is how our great nation has always operated in the past- prior to George Bush Sr., Bill Clinton, and the globalist, Uni-party swamp changing all of that with their "New World Order" agenda in the 1990's.

America must return to its protectionist tariffs system and, the prosperity that comes from self reliance that our nation is fortunate enough to have access to.