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wilber1 wrote:
You keep harping on the UAW, maintaining that a tariff that protects their jobs doesn't protect the companies they work for. Like there is no relationship between corporate profits and what they can pay their employees.
Well, the UAW is the one that had light trucks added to the chicken tax and the are the ones who keep lobbying for its continuation. You see, here is where are disconnect is. You see, I agree that it protects the companies they work with as well as any company US or not that builds on US soil, and YOU keep saying it ONLY protects US companies and that is false. The premise of the tax is to protect US jobs, not US companies.
wilber1 wrote:
You maintain that the tax doesn't restrict competitiveness. That makes no sense, why have it then.
If competition is or was restricted, then why is it that there was
several foreign competitors that have come and gone since its inception and the US has the most pick up truck model choices(27 to be exact) with the most configurations of any other market? Seems like it is not doing a good job of restricting competition.
wilber1 wrote:
Of course it benefits Toyota and Nissan. They produce vehicles in the US with non union labour and are protected from competition from other Asian manufacturers by the same tax. To say their bottom line doesn't benefit is delusional. Korean auto unions were livid when their government signed a trade agreement that extended the Chicken tax on their vehicles for another 25 years.
Toyota didn't always build in an none union facility. For the first 12 years they made pickups in the US, it was at a UAW facility in California.
wilber1 wrote:
At least I am not delusional about the real purposes of tariffs and their real consequences.
From my point of view, you kind of are. However, you are not an American and have no say so in what we put tariffs on or how much so I am not sure why you care so much about that something that is not your concern. I am sure I can find a few Canadian policies I don't agree with, but it is not my business what you guys want to do with your taxes and tariffs.
