How much more would you pay to have a shirt made in the US by Americans?

If iPhones were made in the US by union labor, the cost would only be $20 more per phone. That cost has to be much less for a shirt - if it's the same percentage than a shirt made in the US by union workers would be less than a dollar more than you pay now.

Union workers are paid a living wage, and get health insurance, so unlike Walmart employees, taxpayers aren't paying their Medicaid, and they aren't getting food stamps.

When is it time to finally wake up and see what buying cheap junk is doing not only to those poor workers who died in Bangladesh, but to YOUR tax dollars when you have to pay for what retailers won't pay themselves!

$5.00

If we had large taxes on 3rd world goods, I would have no problem paying for American products.

The "made in the USA" is a union siren call.

I personally don't care.

Anyone who didn't sleep through freshman economics classes knows that trade expands the economy and helps in specialization. That means using cheap labor in Mexico and China is a GOOD thing for both economies.

(The dirty little secret is that unions don't like the competition, and democrats also favor outsourcing, for example General Electric and Jeffrey Imelt.)

Why would I want my fellow Americans working in textile mills or factories? That is grunt work. I want my fellow Americans getting education in STEM fields, acquiring skills that can't be outsourced.

Do you want our future generations making t-shirts? Or running the businesses that market those t-shirts in the 21st century global economy?

@scooterpoo and anyone who showed up to the second day of that freshman economics class also learned the trade deficits HURT the economy.

Try taking the WHOLE class