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It's rather silly if you ask me how protectionist most capitalist market pro countries are. Any solar panel worth buying at the moment comes from China. Yet we
by dubcanada 3y ago
It's rather silly if you ask me how protectionist most capitalist market pro countries are. Any solar panel worth buying at the moment comes from China. Yet we have insane tariffs on imported them into Canada or USA. But if you go down to Joe's Solar and ask for a quote, you're getting a quote on imported Chinese solar panels.
So all they are doing is artificially raising the price of every single solar installation while offering a rebate, the local manufacturer if they even exist does not make panels that produce enough energy to compete and still cost more then importing at 150% tariff.
- palmfacehn 3y agoProtectionism isn't generally regarded as pro-market. Command and control economies where states subsidize auto industries, put up grants for chip fabs or nationalize entire sectors are vaguely oriented towards market pricing at best.