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Comment Cost of Walmart (Score 1) 702

When you talk about building a manufacturing infrastructure, this is a classic example of the cost of having so many consumer goods made offshore.
When these goods are manufactured there, sure there are points made on the retail sale, but the cost to the economy for cheap consumer goods results in a lower paying service jobs and reliance on foreign countries for most goods.

If the foreign manufacturers started adding a 10% fee to everything shipped to the USA, then you have a HUGE increase in inflation and a further devalue of the dollar and this puts the entire economy at risk.

This is the cost of shopping at the big box stores and being pleased at buying your offshore manufactured goods at discounted rates.
As for the comment about service jobs, the scary thing is that continue to see those shipped offshore too, have you called a tech support line in the last few years??

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