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Originally Posted by Road-Runner
I couldn't agree more. I have always chosen Made in the U.S.A. when available. In college Econ we talked about the 'Ripple Effect' of making things here and paying U.S. workers for their labor. Every dollar earned is spent repeatedly locally, where the worker buys groceries, goods or gas which supports a local business that also hires local workers who have the same effect when they spend their earnings, etc., etc., etc. For foreign made goods sold here has a ripple of say 3X, the locally manufactured product sold has like a 12-15X multiplier. The aforementioned plumbing example does not take any of this into consideration.
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It doesn’t take it into consideration because it would never happen. Why? Because the US manufacturer would go out of business. He could never get a foot hold to test your theory because bottom line, the majority of people and businesses look at the bottom line and won’t pay more for an item when there is one for less made elsewhere.