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TDIClub Enthusiast, ToofTek Inventor
Brazil isn't a NAFTA country, so you've still got 2.5% import tax.
Well there are plenty of Brazilian made Mk4 Golfs here. I would like to see here ofcourseBrazil isn't a NAFTA country, so you've still got 2.5% import tax.
Maybe, mabe not. How do you know that by the car being produced elsewhere cheaper/more efficently doesn't come back? The may produce the car cheaper/better and we do planes better and they may buy our planes so resources are allocated more effeciently and we both benefit. Simple economic theory. But I think we should be able to do it better but for all of the regulations and laws that drive up the costsA more expensive US-made product is, overall, better than a less expensive foreign-made product, though, if that foreign economy doesn't put the money back in our economy.
Like lemon laws, safety standards, and fuel economy standards.donDavide said:But I think we should be able to do it better but for all of the regulations and laws that drive up the costs
Cheap is a myth. Everything has a cost. Who pays for that cost is the real question. However, it does cost more to produce something farther away.donDavide said:How do you know that by the car being produced elsewhere cheaper/more efficently doesn't come back
Ford realized that by increasing his workers' wages he could turn them into customers. When workers have more money from wages they can spend that money in the local economy.And, at an economic level, I'm not convinced that we'd be any worse off if we only used indigenous goods made by workers paid fair wages, due to the amount of money staying in our economy, rather than getting burned up in China.
Like lemon laws, safety standards, and fuel economy standards.
Cheap is a myth. Everything has a cost. Who pays for that cost is the real question.
However, it does cost more to produce something farther away.
Funny, in Europe a Jetta costs more than a Golf.You should know as you bought a Golf which IMHO is priced too high compared to
Jettas which are assembled where labor is less expensive and delivery costs less.
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So you got a new car or cash payment for that car, where do you think it came from? what do you think happened to the car you gave up? I'm sure Hyundia or any other car manufacture looses money on lemon laws. So when a company has additional "over head" costs like this what do they do? cut employees dental plans? nahh they roll that added expense into the MSRP of the car, same thing goes to warranty work. So if you don't use a lemon law or warranty work then yes it does cost consumers more.
Please explain how you figure that having lemon laws costs the consumer more?
Those lemon laws saved me from my Azera which Hyundia could not correct!
Those are the "Total Rabbit/Golf/GTI/R32", "Jetta Sedan A5/A6", and "SportWagen A5/A6" figures.That seems like a high Golf number. I suppose it's both gas and diesel. And does it include GTIs? I also would assume the percentage of Sportwagen TDIs sold is higher than Golfs sold.
Those are the "Total Rabbit/Golf/GTI/R32", "Jetta Sedan A5/A6", and "SportWagen A5/A6" figures.That seems like a high Golf number. I suppose it's both gas and diesel. And does it include GTIs? I also would assume the percentage of Sportwagen TDIs sold is higher than Golfs sold.
TINSTAFLLike lemon laws, safety standards, and fuel economy standards.
Cheap is a myth. Everything has a cost. Who pays for that cost is the real question. However, it does cost more to produce something farther away.
Who said all, but the market will weed out the bad onesThe argument is that all regulation is bad because it drives up costs. It's a specious argument because caveat emptor is not sound business. Entropy is not profitable, it just sometimes appears to be.
In reality, regulation is essential because people are finite/busy. People don't have the resources necessary to do everything for themselves. They have to rely on others, and regulation is part of that. Regulators should create regulations to improve, rather than impede, market efficiency. The question concerns the quality/efficiency of the regulation.
Lemon laws don't necessarily "cost consumers more". That depends upon how efficient they are. Instead, they change where costs are located. As I mentioned before, cheapness is often a fiction. Everything has a cost. The question is ... who is paying. Of course, bureaucratic inefficiency carries a cost, too. The "big government" fallacy is based on the notion that less is always more. In reality, government needs to be a "big" as it needs to be in order to address the needs of its people in the most efficient manner. Efficiency and cooperation are critical because they help us fight entropy/chaos as much as possible, and therefore improve/grow as a society.
I agree...let's get back on topicRemind me what this has to do with the 2012 Passat?