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To: grusum who wrote (258370)	7/3/2010 3:37:33 PM
From: Smiling Bob	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 306849

Tax the hell out of imports. I said it many times over the years. The US is the Rodeo Drive of consumerism. We were the premiere retail space of the world, with Plentiful Credit R Us being our anchor store. You want to sell product here, you pay a premium. No other country offers/OFFERED the market we did. No other country had the outlets, the income, or the buying power we did. Third world countries violating human rights as a way to manufacturer goods cheaply should not be what we aspire towards in order to compete. If faced with retaliation, what and how much do we import that we couldn't get elsewhere, be without, or find a substitute for? Silly Banz? Cheap clothing or housewares?