Record U.S. exports confirmed last 3 months all-time highs exceeding $300B monthly.

[SomeStupidName]

Is this thread about US exports or about perceived slavery via prison populations?

They are connected, if your export market that is based on decent paid labor competes with a slave labor backed markets it's impossible to be competitive unless you use tariffs to balance the tables. Another method to balance the table is to place sanctions on the goods that can be imported into your market. Right now we are talking about the U.S. export which was using slave labor in mostly agriculture to produce an export product but the current direction is move off of that system. Moving off of the system now makes it more expensive export that same product as it should because we should have never been using slave labor in the first place. Another issue we suffer from is most of our manufacturing jobs were sent to 3rd world slave labor markets under NAFTA which destroyed the middle class in less than 3 generations, in order to get those jobs back and the exports they produce we need other countries to reduce their tariffs on our good since it takes much more money to produce the product when you don't use slaves. Well no wants that deal I mean why would you when you an just buy from the slave markets, so now we have taken on the energy market and by blocking the worlds ability to get cheep Iranian oil we have forced the market to our exports which do cost more as they should.

[Oldcarpy2]

Everything is all fine and dandy.  Apparently....

[chr0naut]

Yep, so complicit they are marching in the streets to keep their slave labor workforce. Some of them even commit criminal acts in the process and thanks to our wonderful incarceration system we have places we can send these idiots, that is if they don't get themselves shot graveyard dead first.

The disparity between levels of crime and levels of incarceration, display that incarceration in the USA isn't about imprisoning criminals.

[ReturnofBroccoli]

Prison is for felons not small petty misdemeanors

The U.S. prison system costs 412 billion U.S. dollars accorfing to the prison policy initiative at prisonpolicy.org this is the entire tax payer funded cost 

Now, according to the aclu at aclu.org the American Civil liberties union this is the complete breakdown of how much is made off prisoners, where, and how
 

• Prison Maintenance Services ($9 Billion): Over 80% of incarcerated laborers perform general prison maintenance. This includes cooking, cleaning, laundry, and minor repairs, which heavily subsidizes the daily operational costs of the prison system.
  
• Goods and Commodities ($2.09 Billion): State prison industry programs generate billions by manufacturing physical products. These include license plates, clothing, office furniture, and agricultural goods.
  
• Private Corporations ($374 Million): Private companies utilizing prison labor generate hundreds of millions in corporate revenue
  

Now the way private companies are utilizing the goods is by buying the raw materials made by the prisoners from the U.S. government. Their annual profits are barely anything and the system costs 3,636% more than the income and thats counting the private companies income made off the products which is a measly 374 million

Again and for the last time though, this labor is NOT FORCED therefore it IS NOT slave labor

The only sense of it being involuntary is that everyone is scheduled to fucking work
If they don't show up, they get written up on a piece of fucking paper

Thats it.

[Knows]

Is this data from the government? If so, let's watch the stock market.

Since Trump 1st stepped into office the S&P 500 index has increased by a factor of 3.78 

[quintessentone]

Since Trump 1st stepped into office the S&P 500 index has increased by a factor of 3.78 

That is the rich getting richer via insider trading, you should know that because it has been discussed on this forum many times.

[chr0naut]

Ask chr0naut. They think the two are related somehow.

As a previous poster suggested, the higher tariffs will reduce imports that use slave labour.

Which it will do, but tariffs levied against a country are a pretty blunt instrument and will adversely affect far more legitimate and legal trade.

And will raise consumer prices.

As the second poster in this thread pointed out, the percentage increase in total trade in dollars is LESS than the percentage increase in prices due to the tariffs. This indicates that trade volume has actually gone down and that the only increase has been in prices.

So there are rational links between tariffs, import total dollars, slave labour and consumer price increases.

[SomeStupidName]

The disparity between levels of crime and levels of incarceration, display that incarceration in the USA isn't about imprisoning criminals.

No you just can't handle that most people who violate the laws actually get incarcerated for it because we don't pay off our police, lawyers and judges to look the other way like most other countries who treat laws as a joke.

[andy06shake]

No you just can't handle that most people who violate the laws actually get incarcerated for it because we don't pay off our police, lawyers and judges to look the other way like most other countries who treat laws as a joke.

Corruption isn't something most other countries uniquely suffer from, while the US gets off scot-free.

I think you may find that the US has documented corruption cases involving police, lawyers, and judges, just like other nations do.
 
And claiming that "most people who break laws get incarcerated" isn't as straightforward as you make it sound.

Considering millions of crimes and offences go undetected.

[SomeStupidName]

Corruption isn't something most other countries uniquely suffer from, while the US gets off scot-free.

I think you may find that the US has documented corruption cases involving police, lawyers, and judges, just like other nations do.
 
And claiming that "most people who break laws get incarcerated" isn't as straightforward as you make it sound.

Considering millions of crimes and offences go undetected.

I didn't say all. More criminals are caught and prosecuted then get away, even when they wear a badge or serve in legal or political potions. It could always be better but for the most part we do hold people accountable for their actions.

Now how that relates to exports, idk. but I would think having a reputation of high standards that are enforced would make us a better trading partner because fraud would prosecuted if one of our business got caught doing so.