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You seem to be contradicting yourself. One of the key goals of the tariffs is to bring back manufacturing to the US. Yet you're saying the US doesn't rely on t
by bamboozled 1y ago
You seem to be contradicting yourself.
One of the key goals of the tariffs is to bring back manufacturing to the US. Yet you're saying the US doesn't rely on trade, which one is it?
Manufacturing is offshored so you need tariffs to bring it back onshore and make foreign goods less comeptitive.
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America is highly self-sufficient and doesn't need much, negating the entire purpose of tariffs in the first place...so why apply them at all if they have no effect
- hollerith 1y agoI never expressed support for Trump's tariffs. I even called them "silly"!
- bamboozled 1y agoI didn't say you supported them, I'm just pointing out the floor in the logic presented. Tariffs would be useless if trade wasn't important to the US.