This is demonstrably false with 2 minutes of googling. For example, look at [1]. Most expenditures are not on things that are highly impacted by manufacturing

This is demonstrably false with 2 minutes of googling. For example, look at [1]. Most expenditures are not on things that are highly impacted by manufacturing costs, and even with imported manufactured goods or foods a big component of the cost is transportation, stocking, advertising, etc. [1] https://howmuch.net/articles/breakdown-average-american-spending https://howmuch.net/articles/breakdown-average-american-spen...