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Senior Member
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Join Date: Jan 2015
Location: Merritt Island, Florida
Posts: 1,604
Real Name: Brett
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Senior Member
Join Date: Jan 2015
Location: Merritt Island, Florida
Posts: 1,604
Real Name: Brett
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Big box stores helped this trend, driving out competitors, then their profits went up as they slowly raised their prices back up. Then when you can exploit poor countries and their labor pool, it got even worse. China made a conscious effort to flood our market with cheap crap too, which further drove any competitors we had here out, because god forbid a CEO and board of directors make less than several million a year. The lobbyists padding politicians wallets to garner favorable votes to lessen tariff restrictions played into this as well.
Why do Lobster fisheries pay tariffs to export to Europe, while Canadians harvesting the same Lobsters pay none. This has been going on for a long time. We've been just too busy playing video games and watching football to pay attention.
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