• assassinatedbyCIA@lemmy.world
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      6 months ago

      They’re trying to block mexican made Chinese vehicles as well. They don’t want Americans buying cheap evs.

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        6 months ago

        This makes the most sense. Sell them here. Built elsewhere? Tax the shit out of them. You can avoid the tax by creating American jobs and having them manufactured here.

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          6 months ago

          That’s what the chicken tax is/was. This is just a tax on EVs made by Chinese companies. It’s pretty ridiculous.

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            6 months ago

            Yes, why not? They aren’t prohibited, they’re just being given a disadvantage compared to American made vehicles being sold in America. A tax for notoriously poor labor standards, we can call it. If they want to use a union shop somewhere in middle America they can avoid that tax altogether.

            If I misunderstood you please correct me.

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              6 months ago

              That’s literally in the textbooks as the kind of thing you’re not supposed to do. If you keep protecting US companies they will never get better. Prices will never come down.

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        6 months ago

        They don’t want them to, they want you to keep using gas.