USMCA vs NAFTA, explained with a toy car

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i guess the major downside of NAFTA keeping car prices down was the environment. maybe if the price of cars went up like everything else, there would be better public transportation, less suburban sprawl, etc. although our low subsidized gas prices also "help" in that area as well.

and because there would be less cars that means the auto workers wouldn't be better off if NAFTA didn't exist.
 

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Car prices have really skyrocketed in the last 4 years
Prices have risen because of greed & meeting wall expectations
 
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i guess the major downside of NAFTA keeping car prices down was the environment. maybe if the price of cars went up like everything else, there would be better public transportation, less suburban sprawl, etc. although our low subsidized gas prices also "help" in that area as well.

and because there would be less cars that means the auto workers wouldn't be better off if NAFTA didn't exist.

It would take many years for that to come to pass

People would hold onto their current cars longer
 

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It would take many years for that to come to pass

People would hold onto their current cars longer
i'm not talking about now, i'm talking about back then when it was instituted. how we live today might be different. or maybe incomes would have risen with the increase costs of car ownership and nothing would have changed in terms of planning and development.
 

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i guess the major downside of NAFTA keeping car prices down was the environment. maybe if the price of cars went up like everything else, there would be better public transportation, less suburban sprawl, etc. although our low subsidized gas prices also "help" in that area as well.

and because there would be less cars that means the auto workers wouldn't be better off if NAFTA didn't exist.

I could see a lotta jobs being created just off of laying down massive new public transportation infrastructure alone. So yeah auto workers would have gotten hit, but they could have been retrained for something like that
 
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