[central_va]

Their material cost will go up 10% like all of their competitors. Maybe a domestic source will come online if the material is available locally. That is the dynamic operating here.

The purpose of a tariff is to artificially hike the price of the import making the domestic source more profitable resulting in more Americans working and reducing the welfare money spent. Win-win. It's the whole point which is to reverse the bias from middlemen profits obtained importing goods into the USA to real wages and benefits for Americans making goods.

The petulant Free Traitors™ have to realize that there are two sides to this issue. Trump is going to teach them the hard way.

I have to admit that was a good question. Which is a surprise coming from you.

[CodeToad]

“Their material cost will go up 10% like all of their competitors. Maybe a domestic source will come online if the material is available locally. “

Exactly!

The bigger question is why the hell are we importing in the first place?? We used to export steel to Japan and now we import it from Japan? Since when did Japan get iron ore reserves??

This upside down “hate America” crap has got to stop.

As you said, tariff imports and watch domestic production explode.

[1rudeboy]

In other words, when you claim that you are concerned about "high-paying" manufacturing jobs, you really mean that you are concerned about some of them. Alexander Hamilton you are not.

To be fair, maybe you are a really, really drunk Alexander Hamilton.

[Toddsterpatriot]

The purpose of a tariff is to artificially hike the price of the import making the domestic source more profitable resulting in more Americans working and reducing the welfare money spent. Win-win.

Raising the price consumers pay would actually make that Win-win-lose.