r/MurderedByWords 1d ago

Sounds about right.

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u/SchnaapsIdee 1d ago

The Commerce secretary was on CNBC yesterday am talking about how the tariffs will bring back manufacturing jobs to US. Then a few seconds later was talking about having Apple (and other companies) make their products in the US using robotics. So very few actual American humans getting jobs.

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u/damunzie 1d ago

He's also fond of saying we're going to make trillions from the tariff payments, but we'll all be buying American products. The math does not check out.

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u/Suspicious_Bicycle 1d ago

The government will take trillions from the American populous, then when all manufacturing comes back to the US, tariff revenue will drop to zero. But Americans will still pay the higher prices to the corporations.

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u/SuperGyroDave 22h ago

No one is making factories in America when in 4 years the next president could remove all this bullshit and then your factory goes broke.

You can't invest in a climate where you have a toddler throwing tariff tantrums every other week and expect anyone to be able to safely navigate his nonsense.