RE: Trumps 30% tariff on imported solar panels
January 29, 2018 at 7:21 am
(This post was last modified: January 29, 2018 at 7:25 am by The Grand Nudger.)
(January 27, 2018 at 1:09 pm)CapnAwesome Wrote: So are you in favor of the tarriff then? It would seem to balance that out by taxing the chinese. I guess I don't know enough about the solar industry to really have an opinion on it.
I just think it's funny to watch people who would normally be in favor of higher tariffs be all free trade because it's Trump. If Chinese solar really is dirty, this would seem a good thing.
No, I don't think a tariff is the way to go, personally. I did a big write up on the boards awhile back @ how solar came to be in the position it's in. Long story short, the end of cheap waste and the coopting of industry watchdogs combined with the wholesale gutting of relevant regs under the guise of "pro-business" policy. A tariff would drive manufacturing further into the toilet for the same reason it dove into the toilet in the first place. Offshore manufacturers would race to the bottom again.
I'm only conflicted in that our bumbling admin has at least identified a legitimate problem for a change..even if the proposed solution is as amatuerish as we've come to expect. So I guess they get a participation award on this one? How you came to be under the impression that I'm not predictably in the tank for free trade, otoh, is a mystery, lol. I think you might have swallowed a little too much of the rights leftist koolaid, of late. You're seeing boogeymen.
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