I hate tariffs (taxes) too cause they will make stuff I buy more expensive, with the money going to federal government which doesn’t need and will waste it.
But that’s no cause to go off the rails like Neil here, he sounds hysterical.
Having spent quarter of a century in design and manufacture of large machinery in the United States, IMHO tariffs on imported machinery will bring back thousands of HIGH PAYING jobs lost to countries like China, Japan and others who subsidize their exports with cheap loans from their governments.
Our customers loved our machines based on past experience and our fast service, but my company could not compete with the near zero interest rate loans to buyers from those countries. Most of Our machines cost multiple million US dollars and without financing many buyers were forced to buy imported machinery.
Any tariffs on such machines will seldom put money in government coffers because buyers will buy indigenously manufactured goods which means there will be few imports to collect tariff tax on.
What it boils down to is tariffs must be very selective. Do not tax cheap stuff which can be manufactured with mass production such as one finds in Walmart. That will simply raise cost of living without creating many high paying jobs.
With a very few exceptions, I loathe and despise the media including Fox and those in it.