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>This is not the most cost effective way to do it. What would you recommend?
by goatcode 4y ago
>This is not the most cost effective way to do it.
What would you recommend?
- 01100011 4y agoOpening up the possibility that other countries, friendly to the US, could also produce some of our semiconductors. We can work to expand S. Korean capacity, for instance. We also don't need to dump money on a problem that would respond to more gentle incentives like low interest rate loans, laws favoring government purchasing of chips from aligned nations, and incentives to boost the infrastructure needed to manufacture chips. One big piece of bringing back mfg to the US is considering expedited environmental review in limited economic zones and commitments to improving our energy and chemical industries which feed into semis. You could write a book on ways to do it, but stealing money from the future and raining it onto companies that already make billions in profits is comically short sighted.
- goatcode 4y agoWould there be a domestic target for the same ideas that you'd propose a foreign one(s), or do you believe there to be something more virtuous about South Korea et. al that'd make them better recipients of such things?