This is about fairly leveling a playing field, not about subsidizing America’s blue collar manufacturing employees.
China has been engaging in economic warfare on us for a long time, and we have let them do it. Even assisted them at a government level. It is time for all of us to face up to the truth that Trump apparently understands well, we are at, and have been for decades, engaged in a one-sided economic war.
You ever wonder why shipping is cheaper from China to Los Angeles for Chinese manufacturers than it is to ship from Los Angeles to New York? It is because our government has willingly subsidized shipping from China.
And that is simply ONE example. We are long past the time to fight back.
This is incorrect. Shipping is cheaper from China to Los Angeles because there are enormous economies of scale in marine transportation. A single container vessel with about a dozen crew members can carry 6,000-12,000 shipping containers. A truck can haul one. A double-stack intermodal train can carry several hundred at most.