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The things that are cheaper to make in the US were already made in the US.
Because of the high cost of labor here, we tend to specialize in things where the unit cost is so high that the labor cost doesn't matter as much and spending extra for educated and skilled workers becomes a cheaper upgrade. Things like jet engine parts, engines, and machine tools.
Also things where you make a lot of them in an automated fashion, like precision screws and nuts or refined petroleum products. We're probably not making the plastic bags or chairs, but we would be making the giant tub of plastic beads used for the injection moulding, which is then shipped to Malaysia to be moulded, and then back to the US to be a deck chair.

The set of industries that are close enough to the line to make sense to move to the US and can be moved quickly enough for it to matter is vanishingly small.
It's why most of our exports have been intangible for so long.

I believe it's paid as part of clearing customs. Since everything is in some capacity inspected (even if that just means checking the weight, container seals, and serial numbers in the freight container), that means there's some record of what's coming in and from where. At that point the importer pays customs the various fees and taxes before customs let's them take the goods out of the port of entry.

The importer would mark it down as part of the taxes that they paid on their purchase, but it would largely only matter so that they can appropriately indicate what portion of the purchase price was taxes that have already been paid so they don't double pay later.

You get better insurance rates as a large business because you have more collateral and have a larger contract. If it gets the insurance company more net money to give you a lower rate per item insured, they want that extra bit of income. Rather, the person signing the deal wants that extra bit of commission on a large contract.

If what you're insuring costs more than the contract value, they'll 100% hike rates to make up for it.
They're in the business of betting that they'll make a lot of profit while you bet they'll only make a little profit. It doesn't matter how much money you have, they'll always arrange the numbers so that their worst case scenario is minimal profit.

There's no amount of money you can pay someone to lose money on a deal.

Hypothesis: you can go to the Great lakes region and just make random noises and people will be like "hey, what's up?”.

If not having it doesn't lose you anything can I have yours?

You're focusing on loss of money while ignoring loss of value. It doesn't have to be currency to have value, and the value of something falling has an impact on your expectation of realizing that value later.

Your position works better with people treating the expectation of profit as value, and decrying unmet profit goals as a loss.

Don't give him so much credit. Everything he does is credited as an intentional distraction from whatever it is that he just did.

and the rock might have hit someone in the administration and kept them from doing anything else for a few days at least.

I lack your confidence in the racism of the US military. I think it just changes what terms they use to dehuminize anyone they shoot.
It's not like the US has never invaded anyplace with white people.

I have zero belief that any units will ignore or slow walk any orders. There's just no history of that happening in recent US military existence to expect it to happen now. Vietnam saw a handful of cases where people likely killed their commanders, but it very plainly didn't impact the course of the war.

The UN will never determine that the US is engaged in an illegal war. The security council needs to vote on that, and the US gets to veto. The ICC doesn't apply to the US because we never ratified the agreement. It's just someone elses laws.

Direct action against the military is more likely to have an effect, but linking arms is not going to be effective. Impeding military production is just going to get you beaten and arrested, at best.
Specifically interfering with military operations is particularly illegal and carries penalties way worse than the usual you get for messing with other businesses.
If you're going that far, at least do something effective rather than slowing down a truck for a few hours.
Look to the WW1 protests, and what was effective there and what happened.

But that also assumes the US military is unified to follow orders into an illegal war, and that may not be the case.

Curious about why it would be an illegal war. Unjust, immoral, unprovoked, and unnecessary are not actually what makes a war illegal.

The invasion of Iraq was entirely based on false pretenses and the military was perfectly unified. Compared to that, an open war of conquest is pretty reasonable.

So buy a car without those things, or don't use them. It's not like you can't drive my car without those things, and every one of them, barring the camera for obvious reasons, is controlled by a physical button. Better yet just don't drive. If more people took public transportation we'd be better off.

I don't particularly want to drive. When I do, I'd prefer to have climate control, not need to crank a window, and for the car to be able to tell me someone is going to clip me when I'm backing up. No matter how small the support bars are, the driver will never have as good a view as the radar sensor mounted on the side of the rear bumper.

Backup cams aren't a solution to a design that limits visibility, they're a solution to "most people won't turn their heads when backing up". People like their necks more than they like their neighbors kids.

It's one thing to say that you want a no-frills car, and another entirely to say that car design peaked 30 years ago, and even further than that if you want a car that isn't impacted by electronic component failure.

Not every car is a piece of shit. Mine has a touch screen for configuring parameters I honestly don't think you need a dedicated button for, like "lane drift alert volume" and those can only be done when the car is parked.
Everything else either has a button as well even if they had to dig deep into the plausible locations to get there, like "press the button on the end of the turn signal to disable lane centering while adaptive cruise enabled", or it only allows voice communication while in motion, like the typing based commands for navigation.

I think the only time I've wanted to use a setting that didn't have a button was when I was on a stretch of freeway in traffic where I didn't feel keen on pulling over if I could avoid it, and I got gunk on one of the radar sensors. Since it couldn't get a coherent reading it refused to turn on cruise control since it was set to adaptive. I had to drive without cruise control for a while until I pulled into a gas station and was able to clean the gunk. The setting to disable adaptive cruise control was touchscreen only, and locked out when the vehicle was moving.