If we raise tariffs to 100%, then the stuff from China will double in price. Making their cheap stuff expensive will fix everything. They already have 100% tariffs on the stuff we make, right?
Of course, nobody will be able to afford to buy anything, but hey, you have to break some eggs if you’re going to make omelets.
“If we raise tariffs to 100%, then the stuff from China will double in price.”
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OK. Works for me.
“Of course, nobody will be able to afford to buy anything, but hey, you have to break some eggs if you’re going to make omelets...”
That’s something that the Tariff-ers either forget or simply don’t get to begin with. Add cost of any kind to anything and the consumer takes it in the shorts. You’re not punishing the company that built them or the government of the country where they’re built, no, just the end user who pays the freight.
Sure, go ahead, throw massive tarrifs on all imported goods. Watch the prices on TVs, electronics, cars all shoot up. “Good” you say and now all of these things will now be made in America again? Do you realize what you’re saying there? That to bring those industries back to this country the product is going to have be priced, sometimes significantly, higher.