Comment on Biden moves to crack down on Shein and Temu, slow shipments into US

driving_crooner@lemmy.eco.br ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

• protist@mander.xyz ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  How braindead do you have to be to call Temu a “free market?” They exploit a loophole in the tax code to undercut competitors, and in so doing use way more packaging materials and expend significantly more energy per item in trans-oceanic transportation than typical bulk trade does

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• catloaf@lemm.ee ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Neither the US nor China are truly free markets. They both play with taxes, tariffs, and subsides to affect commerce both international and domestic.

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  • CommunistBear@hexbear.net ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Yeah but the US is the one constantly jerking itself into a frenzy about “free markets”

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  • Belly_Beanis@hexbear.net ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    “True free markets have never been tried!”

    lol

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  • DefinitelyNotAPhone@hexbear.net ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    I love this libertarian obsession with “true free markets” as if there has ever been or ever will be a market with no nation-states or major conglomerates putting their fingers on the scale for their own self interests. What a world it must be to live in where one is so high on idealism that they somehow miss how incredibly fucking worthless even considering such a thing is when a child could point out that would never occur.

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