Originally Posted by kx250rider
If that were made in the USA, it would cost at least $500 with the unions, medical insurance, employee practices insurance, taxes, fees, environmental licenses, city business certificates, state bureau of electronics registrations, product liability defense retainers, legal engineering, $25/hr manual labor, mandatory coffee breaks, factory-paid workboots & goggles, EPA lead solder fines, ventilation permits and HEPA filters for soldering stations, fire permits for the wave solder machine, ISO inspection fees & membership, rent or lease for USA industrial building, environmental impact fees & fines, ridiculously expensive, less-functional chemicals (as opposed to the good ones allowed in Asia), former employee lawsuit payouts, inflated retirement plans, (I'll stop now, because the paint is wearing off my keyboard and I don't have a permit to repaint it).
Charles
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