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From: anchorage ak
MSD Pro Mag 44 Magnetos. The chinese are experts at copying things, they can copy just about anything made and make it look exactly like the original, problem is they don't work or they don't last very long.
The Gov. should be doing something about copying copy write/Trade Mark items, I mean if they go through the containers on ships looking for drugs they should be able to seize enough of these copies. Problem is the price to make them 1/hr in China and 20/hr here.
The Gov. should be doing something about copying copy write/Trade Mark items, I mean if they go through the containers on ships looking for drugs they should be able to seize enough of these copies. Problem is the price to make them 1/hr in China and 20/hr here.
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People never notice that duties are just another tax where the money just sort of disappears................
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I could go into the powdered milk thing but this isn't the place
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From: anchorage ak
Your probably right, I'm not that great with this sorta thing, but look at walmart selling foreign garbage at cheap prices, if that same foriegn garbage was taxed to make prices competitive then would big box stores sell more made in america items which usually hold up better?
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From: anchorage ak
I don't know what to say, NA companies put billions of dollars into getting something to market and the chinese copy them for a fraction of the price and they are seldom any good. They are breaking NA laws but apparently not chinese laws.
I could go into the powdered milk thing but this isn't the place
I could go into the powdered milk thing but this isn't the place
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it is more the fault of our government than anything else, businesses having to supply health care , minimum wage, e.p.a regulations and taxes on everything electric , natural gas , oil and gas,telephone, cellular phone, and on and on. and foreign countries purposely de valuing their money, and our country letting them. then we have unions. were screwed
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Which NA laws are they breaking please?
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I dont know what the powdered milk thing is. Cusoms agents are fair at spotting drugs, but to them spotting a knock off ignition box or clone carburator is probably no easy task. Do you think that msd has parts for their boxes built in foreign countries? I try to buy American when ever possible, but this becomes wn issue sometimes when our companies out source parts to save money. My 2012 gmc probably has ton of out sourced parts in it. If our government would tax the crap outa all foreign products, do you think there would be a market for the chicom junk? I mean the only apeall for knock offs is the cheap pricing.
Please take an Econ 101 class sometime, and learn why high taxes generally just screw everyone over.
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