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Australian prices! 23-May-2011 At 11:03:12 PM Philtown

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On 23/05/2011 ninth10 wrote:
>The car example is a great one to highlight how we kill our own industries.
>Australia has some of the lowest import Tariffs in the world for things
>like cars- which would seem like a good thing, except it becomes so much
>cheaper to import than build locally. Which means local builders become
>non exsistent, and we are forced to import, and imperters can then charge
>whatever they choose.
>If tariffs were increased significantly, we would initially pay more for
>imported gear, until companies started to produce the gear locally again,
>at a competitive price. Our desire to have cheaper imports is our undoing
>in the long run.

This is bullshit. Relative to income, car prices have gone down since import tariffs were removed. If you worked in manufacturing, then damn. If (like 99% of people) you don't - you won.