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Business, Economics & Tax Policy 7: Workers of the world unite!

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aparch said:
Other small trucks that can't be imported into the US because of the stupid Chicken Tax:

Isuzu D-Max

Mitsubishi Triton

Nissan Navara

Renault Duster

Tata Telcoline

Dacia Logan Pick-Up

To be fair, some of these vehicles potentially could fail the North American car safety crash worthiness testing, but alas.
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looks like the Isuzu Dmax is a GM anyway. no one in there right mind would buy a Renault or a ta ta.:)
Nissan is marketed under the frontier name.

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walrus said:
looks like the Isuzu Dmax is a GM anyway. no one in there right mind would buy a Renault or a ta ta.:)
Nissan is marketed under the frontier name.

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The second generation of the Nissan Navara is sold as the Frontier and was re-designed to be a larger sized vehicle for the North American markets. The third generation which is smaller, and now in production, is NOT available in the US.

I didn't realize that the D-Max continued to share the platform, as it appeared that GM abanonded the co-branding as Colorado when they re-introduced the new Colorado design a few years ago. It appears that Isuzu now shares the GM styling with their own branding (and not vice-versa from the original Colorado). :)

And totally agreed about the rest. :D
 
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walrus said:
looks like the Isuzu Dmax is a GM anyway. no one in there right mind would buy a Renault or a ta ta.:)
Nissan is marketed under the frontier name.

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Not sure if youre trying to make a point. The inference that those vehicle lines lack of relevance is a total swing and miss in regards to tariffs.

If there had been no tariff...the huge American light truck market would look entirely different, mirroring the imports of the car market. In fact, the enormous trade differences between cars and light trucks is just a glimpse of the amount of damage that a tariff does to markets. And the light truck prices would be lower - guaranteed.
 
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At first I was like, "Renault makes a truck?" Then I read the article and it's for the South American market. OK, that makes sense.
 
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I have to say this, due to the recent Nike/Kap campaign. Haven't bought Nike anything in 20+ years. They are marketing bullsh* right now.

Thanks to an account I follow on Twitter:

“I love Nike for their take on social issues.”
-American Idiot #1

“I hate Nike because I respect the flag and America’s troops.”
-American Idiot #2

“Nike pays me 6¢ an hour to make shoes by hand.”
-7 year old in Indonesia
 
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aparch said:
To be fair, some of these vehicles potentially could fail the North American car safety crash worthiness testing, but alas.
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If you want to look at another source of rising costs, you can look at some of the ridiculous requirements vehicles have, like for example having 14 air bags. Also things like the center brake light (albeit not as much, but it's a factor) can contribute to rising costs of vehicles.
 
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5mn_Major said:
That's exactly the point. There aren't hardly any imported light trucks when there should be tons like there are cars (Honda alone imports 76,000 cars a year). The fact that there are so few means I can guarantee you that you're paying far more than you should for your pick up, SUV.
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If that were true with pickups and SUVs, I'd see a heck of a lot less around, and we wouldn't be seeing the switch that Ford is making.

5mn_Major said:
There are no televisions produced in this country. Trump is contemplating a 25% tariff on imported TVs. That would represent a 25% percent increase in the price of TVs - and fewer bought - and will push inflation up.
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Probably not going to mean all that much, given the amount of cord-cutting that's happening already. Sure you'd still need a monitor, but you're not going to see as many monitors as you had from the 90's one TV in every room days, especially since the smartphone exists.

5mn_Major said:
Not true. Coal and steel tariffs were introduced without any preconditions, resulting from any retribution and has not been tied to any solution. Those tariffs have already done far more damage to US consumers and American companies that source coal and steel than foreigners as domestic producers simply raised prices.

I don't think foreigners care about coal and steel tariffs; they love the fact that our own tariffs are destroying American companies they compete with.
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Quite the opposite. They're enabling the local manufacturers, which drives up consumerism. The 4.2% growth on the quarter, which was said to be impossible when Obama was in office, didn't happen through some magic wand. It happened through bringing manufacturing back to this country.
 
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FlagDUDE08 said:
Quite the opposite. They're enabling the local manufacturers, which drives up consumerism. The 4.2% growth on the quarter, which was said to be impossible when Obama was in office, didn't happen through some magic wand. It happened through bringing manufacturing back to this country.
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Still lying, I see.
 
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rufus said:
Still lying, I see.
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It's happening right in front of our eyes. Not my fault you've convinced yourself of the opposite. The human mind is quite fickle, as it can be trained to believe the sky is green and the ground is blue...
 
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rufus said:
quarter 2, 2014, 5.1%
quarter 3, 2014, 4.9%

You were saying? Oh, that's right. Obama faked the economic numbers. Now that Red Don is in office, the numbers are accurate.

Edit. The only time we've been at -8 was under Dubya. Before that you have to go back to Reagan. Clinton was consistently in the high 4's. So I guess not really that interesting. What do you expect of an economy recovering from the greatest crisis since the Great Depression, and one that only offers economic gains to the top 1%?
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Been posted before, so it's not like you're unaware of it. Impossible, huh?

So yeah, you're still lying.
 
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Why is Sanders going after Amazon? Does he feel that his natural congressional enemies are not important enough?

Maybe government should have age limits. Many of the wacky outcomes come from 70+ yo pols.
 
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5mn_Major said:
Why is Sanders going after Amazon? Does he feel that his natural congressional enemies are not important enough?

Maybe government should have age limits. Many of the wacky outcomes come from 70+ yo pols.
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It's the DNC way.
 
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Jimjamesak said:
Because they treat their employees like garbage.

And their packing sucks.
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Is it worse than the GOP congress' treatment of workers? Sanders sphere of power is that group and not Amazon's human resources. He just has so much capital to spend and is one of few that has the ability to fry that bigger GOP fish.
 
5mn_Major said:
Is it worse than the GOP congress' treatment of workers? Sanders sphere of power is that group and not Amazon's human resources. He just has so much capital to spend and is one of few that has the ability to fry that bigger GOP fish.
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Can’t fix stupid, can affect profit margin.
 
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5mn_Major said:
Why is Sanders going after Amazon? Does he feel that his natural congressional enemies are not important enough?

Maybe government should have age limits. Many of the wacky outcomes come from 70+ yo pols.
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Seattle is a town that appears split upon the idea of Amazon. Yes, it's brought a lot of business into the area that wasn't there before, but it's also brought a lot of homelessness. Even with the jobs, Amazon's not paying enough to get its employees into relatively low income housing in a city that's having a huge house boom. On the other hand, Seattle has been doing a lot to combat urban sprawl, which will effectively drive up housing prices without the presence of Amazon in town. But it's easier to blame Bezos than it is to go after like-minded politicians at the local level, or even include them and their policies in the discussion.
 
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St. Clown said:
Seattle is a town that appears split upon the idea of Amazon. Yes, it's brought a lot of business into the area that wasn't there before, but it's also brought a lot of homelessness. Even with the jobs, Amazon's not paying enough to get its employees into relatively low income housing in a city that's having a huge house boom. On the other hand, Seattle has been doing a lot to combat urban sprawl, which will effectively drive up housing prices without the presence of Amazon in town. But it's easier to blame Bezos than it is to go after like-minded politicians at the local level, or even include them and their policies in the discussion.
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Seattle has a country leading corporate boom going on. Tons of wealth is being generated there by a bevy of start ups. That and limited land are creating massive real estate valuation increases. You could go full stop socialism. I wouldn't do that but that's not my decision. But you can't blame that on Amazon or ask them to rescue the Seattle metro area.
 
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Amazon is an awful company full of Type A backstabbers, run by a libertarian jackarse who talks out of both sides of his mouth.

But yes, they bring in a lot of tax money.
 
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