If You Have Ever Made A Purchase At Walmart....

[syrenn]

The unions are run by representatives put there by the members and are no better or worse than the other idiots that get elected to public positions of power. The problem is not the concept of a union any more than the concept of a democratic republic.

No? Union labor demands are prime reason that companies have left this country to have their products manufactured elsewhere.

Labor unions are also why we as a country still enjoy the highest over all standard of living in the industrialized world.

yeah..and its bankrupting the country too.

 

[uscitizen]

No? Union labor demands are prime reason that companies have left this country to have their products manufactured elsewhere.

Labor unions are also why we as a country still enjoy the highest over all standard of living in the industrialized world.

yeah..and its bankrupting the country too.

Well that is the rest of the worlds fault for working so cheaply

 

[AVG-JOE]

I propose that at tax time and you pissants that are crying about paying your fair share that we have a tax law that provides a 10% rebate off your tax burden if you can prove your purchases in the last year were American Manufactured.

Kind of a good idea, but Overly complex.

Plus, it does nothing to encentivize the 50% of the population who do not pay Income taxes.

TARIFFS are easier to collect, they bring revenue into the FEDERAL GOVERNMENT, and they encentivize consumers to BUY AMERICAN, and industrialists to MAKE IT IN AMERICA, too.

True but the reason that there are as you say 50% that pay little or nothing I suspect have little to spend on much of anything anyway.

I don't see how my idea is overly complex. We can deduct lots of things off taxes already and it is up to the IRS to judge if our deductions are appropriate. This wouldn't be a "new" program in the sense that we would need some new government agency to be created to manage it. Everything we buy these days has a bar code or an identifying number and the IRS employee could easily verify if the product purchased was legitimate. A copy of a receipt for purchases is already required for most deductions.

My idea isn't a cure-all for our economy. I see it as a positive step in the right direction to increase tax revenue and give American manufacturing a much needed boost.

It is easy to daydream about sweeping changes in our system but big changes take a lot of time and political will. This idea could be implemented immediately and would require little of the government and REQUIRE no one or business to do anything. It is merely an incentive to BUY AMERICAN.

Which, all things being equal, is a good idea.

If nothing else was done but instill some sort of deduction for purchasing resources developed in America and products made in America, the American worker would benefit.



It's as good looking a coat of paint as I've seen and, all things being equal I'll support it, but I want more.

 

[AVG-JOE]

We can't control the economy by ourselves..

If not us, then who, dude?!?

 

[Moonglow]

Chinese goods and services account for only 2.7% of all sold in the USA.

 

[AVG-JOE]

No? Union labor demands are prime reason that companies have left this country to have their products manufactured elsewhere.

Labor unions are also why we as a country still enjoy the highest over all standard of living in the industrialized world.

You're both correct!

Unions have a place in the economy of our future but, like government, unions are a tool that can be corrupted and must be used by the public without being served by the public.

 

[Moonglow]

Aren't the Waltons guilty of bastardization of mass marketing also?

 

[Mr.Nick]

So, I'm supposed to help the economy by paying too much for stuff, buying from merchants who can't do what it takes to earn my business?

I don't think so....Homey don't play dat.

Even if you got a nice refund on your taxes? That would be three to four thousand bucks on a high end American car...

Maybe a hundred bucks or more on the stuff you buy fixin up the house or yard...

Look "Homey"...I'm just trying to find a solution...

How about non-union made products are just as good as union made products just cheaper?

So how are we going to fix that?

Besides, the junk people are accustom to would be just too expensive to manufacture in the US using union labor.

I mean a union made LCD TV would only cost $3,000 dollars if it was made by unions...

You may as well standardize all prices and labor and eliminate competition - that's pretty much what some people want and in reality that's communism..

Even then those standards would be subject to supply and demand principals, which would make the aforementioned idea redundant in the first place.

That's also why people are culled under the socialist model in the first place.

 

[Skull Pilot]

Let's see when I buy a shirt at Walmart I save money and all those local residents that work there keep their jobs.

Yeah that's bad for all of us..