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How can this article claim to analyze the benefits of the law without addressing the strategic importance of maintaining domestic industry? We're talking the U
by droopyEyelids 5y ago
How can this article claim to analyze the benefits of the law without addressing the strategic importance of maintaining domestic industry?
We're talking the USA's final few manufacturers in essential industry, here. If we give them up, and then get in a war, that means we would almost automatically lose the war. War is still a real thing that happens on Planet Earth.
Even if the equipment our protected domestic manufacturers make is expensive and low quality, there is a world of difference between expensive and shoddy vs 'nothing at all'
- UncleEntity 5y ago> If we give them up, and then get in a war, that means we would almost automatically lose the war. That argument has been pretty much made obsolete since the invention of the atom bomb...