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.
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.
You could relocate 100% of manufacturing to America, but those goods would then be being made with tariffed materials, so the price wouldn't go down, in fact it would go up as corps mark their products up to recoup the costs of building new factories, to say nothing of the surcharge for the 'made in America' sticker they slap on as rubes celebrate the privilege of paying more for less.
Not once we have a full return to child labor, and get rid of shit like OSHA and the EPA, so we can mine those materials in the US cheaply, at the mere cost of the sweat, blood, and spare limbs of our own kids.
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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.