Tariffs and sky high audio prices.


With the Chinese tariffs taking hold on 100% of the imports and maybe even on Mexico forthcoming, the audio industry is going to see another big jump in their sky high prices. Anyone making purchases ASAP to get lower prices from existing inventory before post tariff products enter the marketplace?
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Ok moderators, I understand now: “He sacrificed all that putting the nation first. The last one to do anything comparable was George Washington”. I guess we slid down the slippery slope huh?

Objectively @millercarbon you might have to admit that Fox News and Glenn Beck were not lifting up Obama or Clinton. It was just barely perceptible, but I think I caught the occasional barb. As to the congress and senate when Trump came in, I believe it was 3 elephants to no donkeys. You are right though, there is no credible, objective news organization NOT digging through the train car loads of “stuff”. Just too much smoke for a real journalist to leave it alone. The irony that you elected to mention Trump in the same sentence with Washington (I can not tell a lie) shouldn’t escape anyone with a sense of humor.

And yes, I do find this humorous. Examining the same set of facts and arriving at completely opposite conclusions is troubling. While Im am certain I am not exactly right, I know I am not completely wrong. In the meantime I’ll pay my taxes, occasionally shake my head in disbelief at the vast chasm between reality and futility. By the way, who knew Sean Spicer was an audiophile but he must be...he is alive and well and posting occasionally on this thread.
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All I'm saying is that I don't mind paying tariffs on Chinese goods if that's what it takes to level the playing field with balanced trade agreements that give American factory workers a competitive chance.


Bingo! Free trade isn't really free when one side has to comply with protecting the snail darter while the other is free to belch out enough chemicals to light a river on fire. Is there a minimum wage in China? To pick just one item from one volume from the library of regulations US businesses must comply with. 

We can't, nor should we, tell other countries what laws they must have to be on equal terms. But we sure can make them pay a tax if they aren't. Its only fair.
So just today:.

1) its reported that Trump admin put the kebash on a climate change report that did not jive with the policy. To hell with mother earth......

2) NYT reports Mexico agreed to the actions to help with migrants a ways back


1984 indeed. Some people approve.
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Miller, we can finally agree on something and I commend you for your insight. We SHOULD protect the environment and stand up for those creatures unable to protect themselves from extinction. We can all agree that a new strip mall or lead battery acid disposal site isn’t worth forcing any living creature into oblivion. And other neighbors on Earth SHOULD be careful with the air/oxygen we breathe and drink. We should live with high standards of character and human decency and expect others to do the same. In fact, we should require our friends and trading partners to be of high character and to honor their word at all times. So, we should put out a document where potential trading partners know the rules if they want to trade with us. Agree or we just won’t trade.

Any tariffs raised though should be allocated completely to those fellow citizens of ours whose jobs in the steel, coal, (insert industry with displaced jobs here) were shipped overseas or rendered obsolete. There is a small but thriving buggy whip maker in Catalonia who flat out stole American jobs because they didn’t charge enough for their whips. We should tariff the heck out their whips and give it our former whip makers who are now, heaven help us, forced to turn out bridles and belts. Who could disagree with that? Otherwise, it would be a tax, a revenue generation sleight of hand and that wouldn’t be honorable.