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> If you want environmental and labor regulations in America, how can you oppose tariffs? Environmental and labor regulations are not the same thing as domesti
by BugsJustFindMe 1y ago
> If you want environmental and labor regulations in America, how can you oppose tariffs?
Environmental and labor regulations are not the same thing as domestic production. Plenty of domestic production uses slave labor and produces toxic lakes of poison.
> Honest question
It feels like a dishonest question given that we know the tariffs are coming from an administration trying to gut the Environmental Protection Agency and Department of Labor.
- red-iron-pine 1y ago> Plenty of domestic production uses slave labor and produces toxic lakes of poison The US basically runs on illegal immigrant labor. That's why food is cheap, houses cheap, lots of other crappy services also cheap -- it's all a buncha Mexicans working under the table.
- BugsJustFindMe 1y agoI was thinking more along the lines of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penal_labor_in_the_United_States https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penal_labor_in_the_United_Stat... but yes, illegal hiring too (the employers know exactly what they're doing).