debbiedowner
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- Feb 12, 2017
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Just don’t buy stuff from mexico or China then it won’t cost you more
are you really this naive, or is it just an act?
If the tariff on products from Mexico is 5%, retailers will raise the price of those items by about 2 or 3 percent and then add 1 or 2 percent to 100 other products to recoup the cost plus some. They understand that people will buy less of the Mexican product, so they take advantage of the ignorance of the consumer.
In the couple of years hear at USMB I have come to the conclusion some of these people are just outright missing a few or rather posting to get a rise out of people because I can't believe anyone can be that stupid and get by in life.
No doubt, you hear a lot more than that.
You are one of the dumber ones thinking jobs are coming back and wages are rising when in fact foreign countries are buying our companies right here in the U.S. then going through temp agencies for their hiring and starting wages $10-$12 bucks an hour. I'm visiting a city right now in a northern state that in the past 6 months Chinese and Brazilian companies have bought up a few manufacturing plants and have done just that. Yep a whopping $10 bucks an hour. As the U.S. drops to number 2 on the world economics scale.