Quote Originally Posted by highlander_Daz
Its a very deep subject, I want to see Scots firms and skills like Kiltmaking and bagpipemaking to thrive and for people to look to Scotland for these things , but taxation and "red tape" imposed by Westminster and not challanged by Holyrood crank up the overheads for many firms making labour intensive products like traditional kilts very expensive to manufacture in the UK.
Daz that is pretty much the point of my cottage business comment. What with NAFTA and the like, favored status trade agreements with China, Japan and who knows where else, not to mention the taxation without representation going on over here...it is no wonder that business and jobs are leaving the country faster than we can count. Thus it becomes very important that people like Rocky, Alexis Malcolm or Kathy Lane here in the states, Bear, Steve and the guys in Canada keep the industry alive. They produce a quality product at a (very) reasonable price. :smile: It may well fall to people in Scotland to do the same
Do we still buy up the imports? Sure but, in my case at least, I try to spread my business around and leave the inexpensive inports for times I want to protect the good stuff.

Mike