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Originally Posted by Arctic Fox
Tariffs are simply a tax on the US public.
Most of the stuff imported from China can never be made here as cheaply, even with a 100% tariff. Even items that can will be manufactured in factories that are full of robots, not workers, so any benefits to employment numbers will be minimal.
Globalization is far from perfect, but it is preferable to isolationism.
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Isolationism you mean like China?
How cheap would we need things to be here if ALL people had jobs and were paid a decent wage and benefits? How about ditching the stock market and companies remain private, how much could be passed on in lower pricing since you don't have to feed those who have contributed nothing? How much less would be siphoned off taxpayers if there were fewer people on welfare and Medicaid?
Working citizens make for a much healthier society and would help squelch the hopeless in inner cities. Idleness is the devils workshop.