TheStorm said:
Nikki Haley with a pretty strong anti-China rant on Fox News Sunday this morning...
Who will do something about our dependence on China. I'm not sure any will, other than Trump.
Trump started by leveraging large tariffs. Now, we need to increase them and start incentives to bring manufacturing back home. I'm not one for incentives; however, we may have too.
Remember, there is a huge difference in Made in America and Assembled in America. Made infers, raw materials, parts, components, and everything needed to assemble.
I know, based on our production at Stitch, that we can't make anything in America, right now. No one has solid manufacturing, of raw materials, in the states, to build some of our products (golf bags being a major one). Consider this: if our FOB cost, from the Asian factory, is $10, we are hit with a 45% tariff. So, before shipping, our cost goes to $14.50.
This is where I disagree with Trump. I have no problem with the tariff; however, China is not paying those tariffs to the Federal Government, we are! This then gets accounted for, in our cost, and we mark it up, to our needed profit models.
If we could find the manufacturing in the States, we would move it as fast as we can. So, instead of Wall Street selling out the country, by assisting Chinese businesses, in buying American companies, and moving the manufacturing to China, we need true investments in the States.
Any of you folks that talk crap about MAGA; well, the above is the exactly what MAGA is really about. You can't be MAGA if you don't understand the manufacturing, of goods.
Not only is it good for people, and jobs, it's extremely good for the security of our country. The elites sold everyone on the idea of being a services economy. Yea, what they did is sold out America!!!
No one will ever convince me otherwise as I live it everyday, in business!!!
Add in… Not energy independence; rather, full spectrum energy dominance! Then, you fix a lot of ill issues!!
On the illegal or criminal immigrants…
“they built the country, the reason our economy is growing”
Joe Biden