Trooper745 wrote:
Can you, in your infinite leftist wisdom, tell us exactly, or even approximately, how much, in US dollars or in percentage of total unit cost, you believe the additional tariff would be, per car, to effectively force Ford Motor Company to bring its Mexican factories back to the US?
Would it be $10, $100, $1,000, $3,000 .... or in percentage of unit price, 0.01%, 0.1%, 1%, 10%, .... or more? Just give me your estimate.
The cost of labor per unit to build an automobile is about 10% let's for arguments sake say the labor cost savings of moving a plant to Mexico is half that ammount, it would ammount to 1500 bucks on a $30,000 car. A comparable tarif on that car would discourage the outsourcing of the jobs and the revenu could be used to pay down the debt improve our infrastructure or reduce income tax. I and every other patriotic American would gladly pay an extra 5% to buy quality American made products, keeping our neighbors in work and the tax base of our communities intact. In many instances we can't because those industries have been decimated domestically. American workers shouldn't be forced to compete with the third world.