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Politics : The Trump Presidency
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To: combjelly who wrote (7214)1/20/2017 9:22:10 PM
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>>And this doesn't address the fact that many of the components are now built in Asia and would have to be shipped across the Pacific. For a lot of reasons, the packaging is very bulky. But we already discussed this and it seems you don't have a clue about those issues. Now there is no reason that those things could be sourced here, but you are now talking about building the whole supply chain and not just the phones themselves. Which is probably a big factor of why Apple calculate it would cost 2 or 3 times to build here than in China.

You raised this issue before, one day before Apple said it was considering building products here, which was a few days after trump brought it up. It isn't a factor.

It is just a business decision and it makes sense for other reasons to be building product here. Combine it with tax credits and you make it happen.

When we talk about government getting out of the way of business this is what it means. Make it possible for business to compete with American labor and you will have American labor.

Now, the unions are going to be a problem so you give them away out. It just requires an understanding of basic microeconomics.
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