Who said anything about mandates.
I favor across-the-board import tariffs.
It’s how American originally raised government revenues to pay for things like our Navy. And building the interstate highway system.
And winning World War II.
Before we stopped making things here...
Yeah, sure.
But that’s not the situation now. All you’ll do is have tariffs plus everything else, which will destroy America on the international market.
Want to know why nobody wants to locate their business in America? 30 percent corporate tax. Nobody else is that high.
You need to learn your history. We had income tax and corporate taxes well before WWII, which preceded the interstate highway system (which was built with gas taxes).
When America was the economic powerhouse in the 50s, it wasn't because we were financed by tariffs (we had Social Security, income taxes, and capital gains taxes well-established by that time). It was because we were the only real economic region that was not destroyed by WWII. Europe was leveled - as was most of Asia. We had our capacity intact - and that fueled most of our economic rise.
As soon as those other nations got back on their manufacturing feet, they started competing and doing well - Japan and Germany with cars, for example.