Quote:We can agree on this.

 

The problem is it takes big government to make it happen, and a progressive bent in that big government.

 

There needs to be import tariffs on items built abroad. Apple is an American company. The iphone should at the very least be assembled in the USA. It's a 60%+ profit margin item for them (less than $250 to build, sold for about $600, and that's the low end ones. Want more storage space on it? Get ready to really get reamed on marginal upgrades) the idea that having to pay an American a livable wage ($15/hr) on the minutes worth of assembly time that each iphone needs would somehow bring trouble to Apple as a company is absurd.

 

Slap a 20% of MSRP tariff on the iphone and suddenly Apple can't outlay capital to build American production facilities fast enough. Same with everything else.

 

We don't need $20 shovels made in China, we need $30 shovels made in the USA, and we won't get that as long as "free market" is the topic du jour.

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