10-03-2012, 07:48 PM
Well, it's nice to buy local if you can, but, I won't buy substandard products just because it's made here, nor will I pay too much premium to buy stuff from here. Also, don't forget, if you want to export, you have to import, too, usually. World trade goes both ways. I'd like something like Tom Clancy's Trade Reform Act to shake up some other countries' tariffs against our merchandise, but, that's just a wish.
(if you don't know what I mean, in Debt of Honor, Congress enacts a law that basically, on activation by the President, will take some country who wants to export to us, but hamstrings anything we try to sell to them, and basically uses their own laws against them when they try to export to us. Mirror-image, so to speak.)
(if you don't know what I mean, in Debt of Honor, Congress enacts a law that basically, on activation by the President, will take some country who wants to export to us, but hamstrings anything we try to sell to them, and basically uses their own laws against them when they try to export to us. Mirror-image, so to speak.)
--Mav