aemeijers wrote in
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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

Not necessarily.
Do Canadians work cheaper than US auto workers?

2. Greater profit for American stockholders, and
3. If Canadians or Mexicans are employed locally, they won't try to
sneak over here, and

it's not our responsibility to provide employement for foreigners.

4. Their salaries are spent on American products or services we can
provide more cheaply than their domestic companies.

MAYBE they spend their some of their salaries on US products.
(and what would those products be??)
More likely,not.

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?

Not even comparable.



Hey! I live in that town!
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