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LordoftheMorons posted...

The last two were bipartisan and tariffs raise prices for consumers. I was actually going to list free trade as the one example I could think of as a conservative idea that is good for the average American, but the GOP's abandoned it under Trump!

Just want to toss an example to you. You can answer however you want, but stay focused on my actual question and don't stray.

USA Companies X: Compete to produce an item and sell it in their own country, while providing a moderately middle class wage to their employees, strict environmental standards, and occupational standards for health and safety.

Generic Country A Companies Y: Produce an item to sell at home and abroad in cooperation with each other and subsidized by the government to be able to sell at lower than normal price. Workers are provided minimal wages, employee health standards are not a priority, and environmental standards are much lower. The item can be produced, shipped overseas to any customer, and still also undercut the item being produced by companies in the USA Companies own country. If demand isn't there, they can continue to produce due to being subsidized and not having to incur the financial reasons not to.

Generic Country B Companies Z: Produce an item to sell at home and abroad in cooperation with each other and lacks any environmental stands, worker protections, and uses non-liveable wages and/or child labor in order to produce their item for much lower. It can be produced, shipped overseas to any customer, and still also undercut the item produced by companies in the USA companies own country.

Do you think tariffs would be a good idea in this scenario? If so, to which party? Why?

Do you possibly let the USA companies go under? What if the item is considering potentially vital? If they go under, likely the other countries then could raise prices due to lessening of supply. Does that matter?

Do you look at the humanitarian aspect of it? How about the environment? Would you support lowering the wages in the USA companies to better compete?

It's kind of a tough question.