Someone ought to go back in a time machine and tell those who funded the Federal government with nothing BUT tariffs, in the 19th century and back.
It’s an external-production tax. The only things that ought to countervail is perhaps (1) a balanced-trade allowance (situation that looks like barter); (2) something that really can’t be made in USA like the mines for it do not exist here; (3) perhaps a free-country allowance based on something like the CATO Foundation free country list (we’ll make the tariffs less for them). Local taxes and regulatory burdens, in turn, should be as LITTLE as possible.
To effectively deal with a problem you FIRST have to ID the root cause of the problem. Then you attack the root problems.
The root problem of business fleeing our country is THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT.
The effective solutions that DIRECTLY ATTACKS the root problem BEGIN with: