That's the whole point, and you're making it for me. People are stocking their pantries on my dime. If trucks would be so expensive for shipping that nobody could afford merchandise shipped by truck, then it's something that needs to stop. That's the market informing you that it's not the best use of resources. Maybe if there wasn't a system of socialism for companies shipping cheap Chinese imports there would be more local manufacturing. Who knows?
I hate to break it to you, but domestic goods make up the bulk of shipments because the US is a heavily industrialised nation that produced a lot of goods in landlocked regions.
That's great, but the people buying the goods need to be the ones paying the cost of producing and shipping them. Pushing any of those costs onto taxpayers is socialism.
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