HeyBub wrote:
Jim Yanik wrote:
yes,they are.
They don't pay US taxes on their salaries,nor contribute to SS,they
don't spend their salaries in the US,they don't vote here and they
don't live here.
WE get no benefit from them constructing autos in Canada,or Mexico.


Sure we do get benefits:
1. Cheaper cars, and/or
2. Greater profit for American stockholders, and
3. If Canadians or Mexicans are employed locally, they won't try to sneak
over here, and
4. Their salaries are spent on American products or services we can provide
more cheaply than their domestic companies.

Everybody wins when countries do what they do best. To illustrate how silly
this "buy American" mantra is, consider a small town where the only business
in the town makes breakfast cereal. Would it make sense to urge the
townspeople to buy their copy machines from the Post Toastie plant?


Hey! I live in that town!
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