| When we raised the steel import tax a few years | | | | closed to sell their energy contracts to other |
| ago it hurt many manufacturing sectors who used | | | | companies and stay closed, thus who are we helping? |
| steel in their production. It also hurt smaller | | | | Certainly not my team; we will now see jobs for cars |
| companies, which use steel in their products. US Steel | | | | and etc move to Mexico and China this would also be |
| prices have cost our team thousands of extra dollars | | | | for tractors and heavy industry trucks and trailer |
| due to the import taxes that were imposed. We told | | | | manufacturers.If we help one industry temporarily |
| everyone if they raise the cost of steel even one | | | | and then give away jobs and factory capacity to |
| hundred dollars per ton we will seek to build the truck | | | | other countries for no reason. We are tilting more |
| beds out of other materials, and once we do we will | | | | than one field by doing this. As a matter of fact we |
| never go back to steel. It is heavy, costs gas | | | | are not going to stand for these increases at all. |
| mileage, rusts, leaving iron oxide streaks on the | | | | Screw that, it affects our team at a time when we |
| exterior paint. It is by the cost we even still use | | | | are creating jobs and all of us entrepreneurs are |
| steel.If the steel companies in this country cannot run | | | | trying to dig ourselves out of the recession. It is |
| more efficient and get their labor unions to perform | | | | good to see that administration was able to re-look |
| efficiently then one should not expect the public to | | | | at this issue as early as July to lower the import tax |
| support that industry or buy their products. We can | | | | and eventually get rid of it soon after in that first |
| build the truck beds out of fiberglass, plastic or | | | | year of increased tariff taxes. Then we can get the |
| composite. We will be able to build uni-body shells and | | | | entire South American countries on our team as |
| make them more ascetically pleasing. So the | | | | trade partners, we may need them.As far as orange |
| administration and the steel industry better get their | | | | juice, we can justify restrictions for reasons of fruit |
| act together. The auto industry also took a hit and | | | | flies, but for steel, I am not sure we can justify this |
| many of the cars are moving to lighter materials and | | | | now because we did not sign the Kyoto Treaty and |
| they will not go back once they do because the | | | | now we are stating we cannot buy Brazilian steel due |
| mileage savings in efficiency is important also.We | | | | to the methods of manufacturing hurting the |
| need Brazil as a trading partner; we need Japan's | | | | environment, hypocritical tactic, we should not go |
| economy to return to growth. We should not give a | | | | there. Besides we have technology, cheap |
| crutch to an industry that is not innovative and lets | | | | technology to prevent these pollutants anyway, all |
| their workers kick back and do little if any work. The | | | | we need to do is see they are in place and let them |
| steel union is strong and they do not believe in hard | | | | into the market to keep our steel industry on their |
| work ethic like the competition in their industry. We | | | | feet and from getting lazy, costing our manufacturing |
| should not support laziness and give a company an | | | | of truck beds too much, thus hurting our ability to |
| edge. Giving away free fish makes even the best of | | | | create jobs by giving our team the incentive to |
| us lazy. This problem is affecting our team and | | | | realize a fair profit in a time when many small |
| costing our franchisees money and ROI time, due to | | | | companies are going out of business and large ones |
| increased costs in new equipment. That hurts their | | | | skipping the nuisance of paying bills in their accounts |
| families and their ability to grow their businesses. The | | | | payable departments by filing bankruptcy, Kmart, |
| import tax of 50% on steel, hurts the rest of the | | | | PG&E, Enron, Global Crossing and others in the news |
| economy, it hurts my team at a time when we need | | | | lately. We cannot dig out America if we are |
| better prices. This creates a monopoly on steel for a | | | | continually forcing more costs on other industries that |
| couple of steel companies who are planning a merger. | | | | need help too. Such as the truck building industry, rail |
| I am upset that we are attacking American | | | | car industry, even garbage truck construction is |
| companies who have won the market by serving | | | | down 30%, school buses, bridges and infrastructure. |
| customers and giving them what they want as we all | | | | Steel is used for lots of things and there is significant |
| vote with our dollar and then the government | | | | volumes; what was the problem with the industry |
| creates monopolies at the same time. So of course | | | | that they could not make a profit if they had a little |
| monopolies are Good as long as the government | | | | competition? Strong survive and that is a |
| creates them. We are glad to see that these steel | | | | fundamental basic of free markets. Think about |
| companies are now able to produce steel now that | | | | it.Lance Winslow - Online Think Tank forum board. |
| the prices are up, yet some of these steel mills are | | | | |