What stops you? You can buy from
American made clothing suppliers. There is a reason such a trend does not dominate the clothing/fashion industry......
Because convenience is far more important to me than price even. While I'd happily pay a bit more for an American Shirt over one made in China, that's not going to be the case if I can't go down to the store, see it in the store, try it on in the store, and buy it at the store but instead have to buy something over the internet based on a picture that's going to take time to be shipped to me.
Why are you against walmart?
I'm not against walmart. I love the concept of Walmart. I think Walmart would still be providing lower prices than most other stores if we did start moving to economic, regulation, tax, and trade policy that made American made products far more common based on a number of other factors.
My issue is more with massively cheap labor in far poorer countries in sweatshop type experiences while we cripple our own manufacturing abilities through constant regulations and policies which is pushing businesses into going overseas because the difference is so vast that its not good business to even attempt to do it in America.
My issue isn't with walmart, my issue is with the government. Walmart is simply reacting to what the government has caused.
[/quote]Here is the problem: Clothing can be made in a more efficient process (cheaper) here in the US, its just less profitable than
manufacturing oh say chemicals, weapons, or protective coated alloy based machinery parts from the standpoint of opportunity cost.[/QUOTE]
That said there's only so many businesses that can enter into an individual market before it becomes over saturated. I fail to believe there'd be a complete void of people wanting to enter into manufacturing ventures other than chemicals, weapons, and alloy based machinery in the US if the laws ended up changing to make it more practical and to reduce the incentive to use poor country horrible conditions sweat shop workers abroad.