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Are you saying that as long as our consumers want whatever they're selling, we shouldn't worry about whether they permit our companies to do business with their
by raganwald 17y ago
Are you saying that as long as our consumers want whatever they're selling, we shouldn't worry about whether they permit our companies to do business with their consumers?
Let's get around the argument about crappy vs. good products and talk about two fairly competent companies. If Canada refuses to allow Boeing to sell aircraft to Canadian airlines, is it still ok for Bombardier to sell aircraft to US airlines?
- ivankirigin 17y agoIt doesn't really matter if our consumers want what they're selling. That's not the government's job to decide what consumers want. But, yes, we should permit companies owned by people outside the US to sell things to people in the US, regardless of any policies in other countries. Would you rather have better planes for all Americans, or slightly higher profits for a single company? It turns out it is almost always huge numbers of domestic consumers vs. a very small number of domestic suppliers, and NOT natives vs. foreigners as the suppliers would like us to believe. Also, foreign companies often employ very many people in the US, which means the labor interest component of the issue is very often blurred.