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Re: General Discussions

Reply #2520 –
Well if we produce Li2O at $4 a pound, and somebody who doesn't pay their workers sells for $2 a pound, then how does the local producer survive?
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Re: General Discussions

Reply #2521 –
Quote from: northernblue – on
Are subsidies where you really want to go ?

We can either charge others a premium for our stuff, gas etc.

Which means we can give our own companies a break so we can survive in times like these.

Or we can continue to be so reliant on others that our whole country tips upside down at every conflict, outbreak or whim.

We have everything we need here. We need to do something to create some stability.

What other options do we have?

Re: General Discussions

Reply #2522 –
Others call them tariffs
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Reply #2523 –
Quote from: Professer E – on
Well if we produce Li2O at $4 a pound, and somebody who doesn't pay their workers sells for $2 a pound, then how does the local producer survive?

Swings and roundabouts....and averages.

In times like this it might cost you $10!
.....as well as everything else.

We need to produce local, be encouraged to buy local and stop selling off our resources at bargain basement prices.

If we gave ourselves discounted power, gas etc. We could afford to spend more on local.

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Reply #2524 –
I make and sell tools so this is what I know.
Just to get an "Australian made" sticker takes a vetting process and ain't cheap. 

Buying local sounds great in principle but the reality is...if the local hardware store sells a locally made shovel for $70 and Asian made rubbish for $50, people buy the cheaper option everytime. Price wins out every time.
Bunnings has the ultimate business model....sell Asian-made junk at multiple, still cheap price points....makes that rubbish 50 shovel look like a premium product over the $20 one. Both are still cheaper than locally made.   Meanwhile local industry continues to be outsourced under free trade agreements.
Price always wins.  Simple consumer economics.
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