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Tych2  Title: Obama Appointed Outpost Czar
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I would pay more for a US product. Not sure how much more, but buying American seems better for the country than not.
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imaloon1  Posts: 674
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Yukishiro1 posted:
Thinking about it some more I wouldn't pay any more simply because it was made in America. There are a lot of reasons I would be willing to pay more but that isn't one of them. For instance if I was living in El Paso I would defintely rather buy local produce from 2 miles on the other side of the border than from monsanto grown at some mass agbribusiness facility thousands of miles away.
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Thugoneous Title: Watching Caliente, BRB.
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I like buying foreign made products because it hurts unions.
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ineenia  Posts: 373
Registered: 2005-11-1 04:48:33
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I think a better question would be how much would companies in other countries pay for the privilege of doing business here.
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Hammerhand21  Title: That's what she said
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Registered: 2002-2-26 14:28:29
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How much of a premium would you pay for WELL MADE products produced in the US
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I would pay more for higher quality products, no matter where it came from. Would try to support the US, but if its something Union driven, they can go to hell for driving up the prices in the first place.
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Yukishiro1 Posts: 3,243
Registered: 2002-9-20 23:52:57
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How much do you get paid? If they paid you half as much, they could sell their product more cheaply.
You are part of the problem! You should go to your boss and ask for your pay to be cut 50%.
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Lyken-P Posts: 453
Registered: 2006-1-14 18:41:19
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If I even considered paying 10%+ more for a product made in the US, I'd just take that amount and buy a better product made in another country.
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theredkay1 Posts: 611
Registered: 2008-5-16 10:37:09
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Around 0%. Made in the USA is a nice tiebreaker I suppose.
Hammerhand21 posted:
Would try to support the US, but if its something Union driven, they can go to hell for driving up the prices in the first place.
this is an odd thought. Why would you try to support the US? Its confusing b/c you want to support the US but not US workers.  |
Abaddon_Ambrosius Title: Retired Theurgist TL
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Registered: 2001-12-21 09:51:39
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I'd pay a 5% premium for well-made US products... assuming as the case describes that they are otherwise about equal in feature, function, durability, etc.
TBH, I know however that most products I buy are not really manufactured/assembled in America, anyway. Anyone see that special they did on I think the Today show a few years ago?
They set out to equip a kitchen and living room with ONLY products made, assembled, etc 100% in the USA.
There were quite a few they had to give up on. And, there were a majority of them that cost DOUBLE OR MORE what they really should have for the quality/features.
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Cawlin Posts: 1,759
Registered: 2005-2-22 07:58:42
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The whole question of wages driving up prices is really a false argument.
GREED bears more of the responsibility for rising prices than labor costs - greed that says during hard times a profit margin of 120% must be maintained so if material costs go up because something gets scarce or if taxes go up because all of the profits made last year went into gaming the fcuk out of the housing market and putting half of the American labor force out of work, then it would seem natural that the profit margin might need to be adjusted down a bit. Yes, you won't make 120% profit, maybe only 100% or 80%... still MORE than enough to be fiscally "safe" from corporate raiding, and to have enough capital to remain flexible and strong in the market... but NO..that's not how it works!! Wages get slashed so that profits stay intact or even rise... and people fighting for a livable wage in the light of all these products whose price continues to go up while wages everywhere go down are vilified while the executive management and the shareholders are giggling all the way to the Caymans on their private planes to hide their billions.
Wages aren't the issue. Greed and fascism are.
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