This is just political posturing, the real issue according to all official statements by the involved parties is a lack of skilled local labor, see TMSC in Ariz

This is just political posturing, the real issue according to all official statements by the involved parties is a lack of skilled local labor, see TMSC in Arizona: https://www.constructiondive.com/news/labor-shortages-delay-arizona-chip-tsmc-plant-2025/688661/ https://www.constructiondive.com/news/labor-shortages-delay-... It may be relevant that the functional literacy rate in Arizona is only about 75% of the working-age population, as compared to Taiwan, where the literacy rate is 99%. Investing in improving the quality of American public education is not something that the the political activists who wrote this article ("Strive Asset Management, an anti-activism fund company co-founded by Republican presidential hopeful Vivek Ramaswamy" - Bloomberg) are interested in, so they are silent on the central issue - high-tech manufacturing requires educated skilled labor.