re: #502 ralphieboy

I have no problem with the Third World competing with us on wages and benefits, that is the impetus we need to remain productive and competitive. But if we allow them to undercut us on basic safety and emissions standards we are doing nobody a favor.

I think that there should be tariffs for nations whose safety and emissions standards are not up to ours: it would serve as an impetus to them to clean up their act and not punish US corporations for maintaining their standards.

I suspect that too much political (local and international) flak would come up to make that feasible. Arguably you could follow that line to add tariffs for goods from countries that don’t sufficiently support human rights as well.

And once you get into tariff/trade wars often both sides end up losing.