[Jim W N]

Wherever it’s initially paid, tariffs are a forced added cost that the consumer ends up paying in higher prices.

The real point is no one can explain how tariffs address the core issues of why businesses are fleeing this country and the resulting slow growth of GDP.

[baltimorepoet]

Hard to compete with the cheap labor express, and labor, safety and environmental standards on par with the Middle Ages.

[Georgia Girl 2]

I think we all know that the corporate income tax and strangling govt regulations are two main culprits.

[JoSixChip]

The real point is no one can explain how tariffs address the core issues of why businesses are fleeing this country and the resulting slow growth of GDP.

It's been explained over and over again. Just because you refuse to accept anything that does not fit into your limited capacity of understanding does not make it unexplained.

[central_va]

The real point is no one can explain how tariffs address the core issues of why businesses are fleeing this country and the resulting slow growth of GDP.

The two issues are not related. The tariff addresses the symptom and is stop gap measure until a remedy can be found. Your question is like the hater of the second amendment asking how treating gunshot wounds and saving a persons life addresses the core problem of gun manufacturing.

Your question is silly.