Charge our companies 25% extra due to a tariff and and we would lose our manufacturing due to our competition underpricing us by 25%. Liberals love tariffs because they are taxes and they help communist China and hurt America.
Liberals love to overuse the word "our" because they love the collective and they love consensus and they love implying that they care about whatever "our" they're going on about at any given moment, and they always are.
One thing a tariff would do, would be to immediately increase employment in those sectors of the domestic economy that are under severe pricing pressure from Chinese imports. That is a fact. Another thing it would do, would be to encourage the return of numerous manufacturing operations and even call centers and such due to shifting the cost equation back into the favor of domestic sources.
So-called "Free Trade" has been a one way street leading out of China and into the United States, depressing wages to match the depressed price of consumer goods manufactured there. No net benefit, in other words, with a great deal of control over our own destinies ceded to a nation with which we've been at odds, that spies upon us, whose military leadership loves to occasionally rattle sabers and make not-so-veiled threats toward.
This is not a nation that we want to build up. For goodness sakes, we're actually paying for their burgeoning industrial might ourselves. That's the rope we're selling them with which to hang ourselves. I am shocked and dismayed that any putative "conservative" cannot see that. You have to be blinded by dollar signs, that's the only possible explanation.
Don't come crying to mommy when your factories are expropriated, that's all I've got to say. Fools, the lot of you.