Tariffs are brilliant. Why should WE suffer from other countries putting tariffs on our products when we accept items from other countries with no tariffs? People are naive in this area. Why should our farmers, car manufacturers, lumber products, and our other manufacturers have tariffs on their products from other countries that restrict us from selling in those countries? People are so narrow minded to disregard these facts because our new tariffs might cost them a few cents while working things out.
You think taking the tariffs off now to wait for new businesses to come online is a good idea? The worst idea and it will never work. Another short sightedness people have. Something has to happen before we Americans make a move. Just like in other areas, when things start to get more expensive, we have alternatives. For example, we have so many options on energy sources but some of them cost more, but when energy gets to be a certain price, some of those more expensive options start coming into play.
Americans don’t want t-shirt/shoe manufacturing here in the states, we want the AI businesses, the more high paying jobs here, which is starting to happen. But I don’t want to see Vietnam impose huge tariffs on our goods coming into Vietnam so our farmers/car manufacturers can’t play in that country. How fair is that.
We need to stop America being a cash cow for the world.
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