I wish to do business with a company in China.
You want to use the power of the State to keep me from having that choice.
The issue is not the state having control, if we set things up right.
That is where the issue resides however.
If the government’s control over things increases as a result I completely agree with you that there is no benefit to it other than bringing back US jobs (a good goal however)
I’m not advocating increased government control.
What that means is, every single thing imported into America will need to be tariffed - and every tariff much be exactly the same as every other import tariff.
What I am saying is everything imported, is levied exactly the (precisely) identical size taxation.
Imported oil. Imported food. Imported fishing equipment. Imported tools. Everything which is made outside of America.
If this were done, there would be ZERO government growth.
But there would be a very large, and very real effect on US manufacturing.
I say bring back US jobs.