You take the mantra hook, line, and sinker. Tariffs only level the playing field in the sense that you’ve just done something as stupid as the other guy.
Arguing about tariffs is a sort of tempest in a teapot. Tariffs do NOTHING to address the REAL cause of business fleeing the country. You need to wrap your head around that.
Trump’s position is to use the ‘threat’ of a tariff to level the playing field. As I just posted, tariffs imposed by some countries have had a very direct impact on our business and the only way around it would be to build a manufacturing facility in that country. Our products are 100% made in the US.
Government is the problem.
Government doesn't work
Fascist EPA, out of control IRS, excess regulation, excess taxation, liberal activist judges, lawsuit mentality, PC and cultural rot, climate change hoax and crony capitalism. Will take a major overhaul and curtailment of centralized government to get the private sector back to work.
Maybe a lot of working class dems are getting it and will switch to independent or republican. Happening in Ohio today?
It sounds like there are two issues at work here:
1) The current business environment in the U.S. which is encumbered by high taxation and over regulation.
2) The trade agreements with our trading partners.
If a trading partner is effectively blocking our goods we need to rectify that especially in large emerging markets like India and China. We also need to fix the root causes of the exodus of our manufacturing base.