There will be manageable decisions for me and my family. If the price of tomatoes goes up, we will buy water balloons. If the price of razors goes up, we will use potsherds. If the price of newspapers is up, we will buy internet. Green beans… tiny snakes, 
festivus pole. True patriots make due.
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So we are clear if you do not like it, it’s a hit piece and political regardless if it’s factual.
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It needs to be photoshopped to be believed
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There is nothing egregious there. IF that happened, it’s hard to argue that wouldn’t be the result. It’s not predicting anything.
If you feel the need to continue venting on this, feel free to reach out via pm and not on the board.
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Americans will not pay more for american made. A recent real world experiment.
The Shower Head Experiment
Afina, a company that produces premium shower heads, recently conducted a straightforward test. They created a landing page offering two identical products with just two differences. One was labeled “Made in Asia” and priced at $129, and the other “Made in the USA” priced at $239 - an 85% premium. The higher price is based a manufacturing cost three times as high in the U.S. as in China and Vietnam.
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Experiment: Will Consumers Really Pay More For American-Made Goods?
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Americans say the would prefer to buy U.S.-made
Afina, a company that produces premium shower heads, recently conducted a straightforward test. They created a landing page offering two identical products with just two differences. One was labeled “Made in Asia” and priced at $129, and the other “Made in the USA” priced at $239 - an 85% premium. The higher price is based a manufacturing cost three times as high in the U.S. as in China and Vietnam.
With over 25,000 visitors to this test page, the results were unequivocal. While a few dozen shoppers added the American-made version to their cart, the final tally of actual purchases was… exactly zero. Not a single consumer bought the American-made product at the higher price point.
The company tested multiple variables - different page layouts, copy variations, and traffic sources - but the results remained consistent. When faced with an actual purchasing decision rather than a hypothetical question, consumers voted with their wallets for the less expensive option.
Nothing surprising in those articles. I’ve seen same results for clothing
in studies done years ago. Consumers consistently passed on the higher priced US made shirts. American Apparel eventually cut way back
on its “Made in the US” products because of that.
What ever happened to American Apparel? | Glossy.
So force American consumers to pay more for basic clothing (growing kids go thru
lots of clothes) and they will have less disposable income to spend on everything else. All the other businesses that depended on getting a chunk of that disposable income are out of luck or will soon go out of business. That’s how the economy
will contract, needlessly.
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No don’t you see AZ have us a personal anecdote of a fairly financially secure senior citizen. It applies equally to all Americans, duh the solution is Americans just have to be just like him and his regardless of circumstances or how the real world works.
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Okay I get it now !
I just need to stop serving the kids coffee at breakfast and with the after school snack and we can ride out the tariffs with no problem.
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Probably you been using that name brand fancy two-ply too. Have you tried just using leaves?
You bath taking, underpants wearing l, lilly hugger
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Americans have to get out of this consumer mentality. We are manufacturers now. Comsume less amd make more, peasants
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I froze 22 pounds of green beans last year. They supplied us all the way until now when I’m harvesting fresh ones again. It isn’t very hard.
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You think it’s easy for everyone to have the time, capital, and land to grow their own food? That’s inefficient at best, likely impossible.
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Look the sooner we can get this economy to progress from service to industrial, the sooner we can start advancing from industrial to agrarian
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You have to be prepared for the Zombie apocalypse. Preppers your time has come
While there isn’t a precise percentage for the number of Americans who identify as “preppers,” estimates range from 7% to 10% of households, with approximately 15-20 million actively engaged in prepping. This represents a significant increase from previous years, with some sources citing a doubling in the number of preppers since 2017
Don’t forget to also just add a few pullets on your apartment balcony to get some eggs and to eat year around. And if one don’t lay just
pluck it and put in the pot for supper.
It’s not hard.
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Yep on this episode of… Personal anecdotes from the well off
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That was really funny but so true of where we are going.
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Maybe if poor people just tried being less poor kinda vibes.
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If the polling is accurate, looks like 89% now understand tariffs are not
a tax cut and will make things cost more.
CNN poll published last week, and a recent Gallup poll found that 89 percent of U.S. adult respondents think the tariffs will increase prices.
Article clearly makes the case that if the objective is to move manufacturing
here, there is no point in negotiations with other countries on tariffs, because you just want manufacturing here. There is nothing to negotiate.
If negotiations are to just to get a better deal, you admittedly saying we are not going to onshore manufacturing. Even though you say that’s the purpose.
You can’t have it both ways.
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You can not.
You can’t say having tariffs are going to make the US wealthy and have huge gains in manufacturing.
Huge tariff revenues means we are still buying a lot of imported products, and the tariffs are the source of revenue.
If we onshore jobs, then we are not buying foreign imported goods, thus the US being wealthy from tariffs is not possible.
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