Re:Ask HN: How exactly apart from taxes, can income inequal...
by manopeace on Friday May 06, 2016 @02:28PM
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Tarrifs on any goods coming from countries whose environmental and labor laws do not match or exceed our own.
What good are our laws to protect our environment when the goods that are sold here destroy some other part of the world?
What good are our labor laws when your sneakers are made by a ten year old across the oscean?
Don't like tarrifs? Then raise your standards to ours. It's not protectionism, you can lower these barriers with a few pieces of legislation. It's on them to fix the problem not us.
What good are our laws to protect our environment when the goods that are sold here destroy some other part of the world?
What good are our labor laws when your sneakers are made by a ten year old across the oscean?
Don't like tarrifs? Then raise your standards to ours. It's not protectionism, you can lower these barriers with a few pieces of legislation. It's on them to fix the problem not us.
Fair trade not free trade.