Tariffs make foreign goods pay a tax burden similar to what our companies pay. It also helps ensure more employment of US citizens and help guarantee we have industries here in times of international crisis.
We don’t want to be dependent on computers and steel from China simply because we got rid of all of that here.
I’m cool with tariffs, but Americans will suffer, BIG TIME, if we don’t stop extortion from unions and regulators at the same time.
We cannot have both - an economy that strangles manufacturing and trade barriers which bar cheap imports...it will bring us down to Third World levels.
But I’m fine with the trade barriers, provided we take the steps needed to allow manufacturing to resume (on the necessary scale) here.