[arthurus]

No tariffs. Cut or eliminate the taxes and regulations. The American worker in an environment of similar government cost load is much more productive- produces much more output per dollar of input than the low wage people in Indonesia and China. The reason business are going elsewhere is the government costs incurred here. The tariffs will increase the cost of domestically made product and reduce efficiency here (same thing) as well as cut into our ability to export because our tariffs will be retaliated upon with their tariffs. We had a similar situation in 1980 to that today. Taxes and regulations were strangling American business. Reagan reduced taxes and removed much regulation. Then, if you are too young to have noticed, we embarked upon a 25 year boom that it took Bush II to wound and Hussein to kill by piling on the Regulations and Taxes. Why would an American company stay in America where it can't make money because it has to pay a host of bureaucrats both in the cost of regulation and in the higher taxation.

[central_va]

The tariffs will increase the cost of domestically made product and reduce efficiency here

Ah, no it won't. That is silly talks.

[central_va]

Why would an American company stay in America where it can't make money

O so no American company made money until the Chinese peasants saved up from ourselves. That is rich.

[Wolfie]

I’ll settle for tariffs equal to what other countries put on our goods, especiailly backdoor “Tariff via VAT” countries (like Germany). Level the playing field.