Removing free trade will not decrease the price of shoes. Removing free trade WILL bring some of the jobs (general labor) or some high skilled jobs (robotics,engineering,etc ...) to manufacture those shoes back to the US, because the companies can then COMPETE here in the US against those other nations.

Lets put it this way.
Before NAFTA
shoe costs 4.00 US on the shelf
shoe costs 3.00 to produce in the US
shoe costs 1.00 to produce in mexico
Getting shoe into the US cost the Mexico shoe company 2.00

Companies didn't have an incentive to use slave labor elsewhere to make more profit over US companies.


After NAFTA
shoe costs 4.00 US
shoe costs 3.00 to produce in the US
shoe costs 1.00 to produce in mexico
Getting shoe into the US cost the Mexico shoe company 0.00

Company has an incentive to move to Mexico because they can save 2.00 of production costs that they'd have paid in retrospect in tariffs.

NO-WHERE in "free trade" does the price ever decrease for the US consumer.

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jfc we are doomed

If you really think that a product will cost the same if you remove free trade, u need to go take economics 101.

free trade gives us more purchasing power for our $s (eg goods are cheaper) at the expense of competing for certain jobs globally (eg low skill mfg jobs).

Doesn't want to live in a patriarchy, wants Bernie for President.

Yeah, morons like that don't represent the left any more than the bible thumpers who think dinosaur fossils are "made up" represent the right.

they find the most idiotic of both sides and show that as a representation. Neither side is averaged out to be that stupid..

This shouldn't even have to be explained really..

It does need to be explained unfortunately. People don't seem to understand that the kind of idiots who end up on youtube at a Trump rally aren't exactly either side's best and brightest.

People more and more are confusing Democrats with the whole sjw, don't keep score in little league because someone will get upset. That's a whole younger generation thing that obviously also just happens to align on one side.

yeh i know. Its getting really really bad. Everyone is just putting everyone else in a huge vague stereotype. I Mean i like doing this on TW to **** with people but its reality now.

That's what's scary. TW used to be edgy. Now we're pretty mellow compared to the politics of the rest of the world.

thats why sometimes i really have to ask, wtf does each side really stand for. it's bizarre.

would have watched if infowars logo wasnt in the corner. that alex jones guy he cray cray

When it comes to Trump supporters or BLM protestors, I'm okay with that. There aren't enough deviants in either group to argue against stereotyping them.

Poor articulation isnt my problem. moran

You're making a false assumption that competition doesn't exist.

That $2.00 saved allows a company to pass those savings onto the consumer thereby forcing companies to compete to drive down prices or go out of business.

Sure, if we lived in a world where there was only one company (a monopoly) we wouldn't see prices decrease, this is why we have regulations to review M&As.

:lol: 'just so happens' haha that's funny and such a crock of ****

Wtf are you talking about? Since 2006, the left has decidedly tilted far, far left and the democrats of old (think JFK: "ask not what your country can do for you...") would be considered republicans today.

Every whiny punk group (fems, sjws, white guilt apologists, hippies, 'democratic' socialists, commies, gays, climate change zealots, and other assorted dregs of humanity) are all on the left for a reason. The common theme is 'for the people', long the mantra of the democrats and a convenient theme to be exploited. democrats have been taken over by 'progressive' scum and you turn a blind eye to it.

Air Jordans are manufactured in China and cost **** $16 dollars a pair. They sell for $100s of dollars. Shoes are a really bad example of free trade, tariffs, and capitalism.