We NEED a System

Jack Albrecht
Nov 12, 2020
  1. Where international transit pollution is factored into the price of goods. A car built in California and shipped by train to Nevada has a massively smaller carbon footprint than one built in Qindao and shipped to California on a transport ship burning asphalt as fuel and churning out the equivalent of millions of car/truck exhausts, then put on train to Nevada. Major European countries manage to add these surcharges to goods passing through their countries, it should be the same across the oceans. This would eliminate a HUGE amount of greenhouse gases, and erase a large part the “comparitive advantage” of foreign goods production.
  2. Where foreign goods produced under conditions that would be illegal domestically should not be legal for sale domestically. If you can’t buy overalls sewn in an unstable building with unsafe wiring, no fire escapes by quasi-slaves in Oshkosh, Wisconsin, it should be illegal to import them from Bangladesh. This would also erase a HUGE amount of the “comparitive advantage” of foreign goods production.

Both of these are easily understandable and logical laws to anyone not making money by the current system of globalism.

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Jack Albrecht
Jack Albrecht

Written by Jack Albrecht

US expatriate living in the EU; seeing the world from both sides of the Atlantic.

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