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> Still, at the time, few could have anticipated just how fully it would be exploited In 1930? Sure, you couldn't expect them to know that everyone would have
by fkyoureadthedoc 1y ago
> Still, at the time, few could have anticipated just how fully it would be exploited
In 1930? Sure, you couldn't expect them to know that everyone would have a wireless telegraph in their pocket and they'd have cheaper and more skilled Chinese labor/manufacturing available.
In 2016? Really? Amazon was already going full steam. Ali Express was well known. It absolutely should have been obvious to legislators and those that lobby them professionally what would happen. How many people regularly, or even annually, buy items for over $800 from either of them?
- infecto 1y agoYou are either naive or a wishful thinker. Government moves slow and I have zero expectation they would have been able to see the writing on the wall. Again I think $800 was too high of a limit but I also think you give too much credit to your hindsight.
- fkyoureadthedoc 1y agoEither naive or wishful thinker. No other option. As far back as the 1950s the textile industry was against raising the de minimis threshold because they wouldn't be able to compete with duty free mail order imports. We keep increasing it. We get SHEIN. Surprised Pikachu, nobody could have foreseen this.