# How was the rest of the world "ripping us off"? **URL:** \ **Category:** Politics & Elections\ **Created:** [April 7, 2025, 8:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-was-the-rest-of-the-world-ripping-us-off/1016757 "2025-04-07T20:28:14Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 2\ **Page:** 7
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2025, 10:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-was-the-rest-of-the-world-ripping-us-off/1016757/121 "2025-04-30T22:26:36Z")
Yeah. Vandals gonna vandalize. Trying to analyze each sledge hammer swing is pointless. ---
**Author:** ![DemonTree](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/demontree/32/8646_2.png) [@DemonTree](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DemonTree)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2025, 1:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-was-the-rest-of-the-world-ripping-us-off/1016757/122 "2025-05-01T13:00:18Z")
> [@DrCube](#): > > I keep making the same analogy with regard to immigration (which is essentially just a subset of international trade), and I keep getting the same non-answers. Free trade isn’t free trade without free migration too. Kinda highlights the differences, too. If a business decides to move from say California to Texas because there are fewer regulations or salaries are lower, their employees can move with them, and they all still pay taxes to the US, which AFAIK are to some extent shared between states. That is not true if a business moves to a different country. And there is no world government to mandate minimum standards for employee rights, environmental protections, or to prevent countries defecting by becoming tax havens. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-was-the-rest-of-the-world-ripping-us-off/1016757.md?page=6)