>>11405816>And yet those same companies had no problem cutting ties with everyone immediately to move to China decades ago.What? People (and companies) go where the money goes. They saw it was way cheaper to make shit in China, but the world isn't the same as it was in the 80s or 90s. Rules and regulations still suck in China, and they're getting even better, so instead of paying 3 cents a month to Chinese kids, it is still getting more and more expensive to make things in China. Its why even in the last decade, manufacturing is slowly being moved around to other places like Vietnam and India. China isn't the magic land of dirt-cheap labor it once was.
I'm not even saying every place would want to bring production back to the US, but that also sort of brings up with umbrella tariffs are so dumb anyway. Its one thing you place a tariff on, say, a car part and that part is produced both domestically and in another country. You can sort of see why there might be a tariff on the part made abroad, so it would discourage people from buying the foreign part and encourage them to buy domestic, keeping more money here, and creating more jobs here. But there are situations where a product's resources just don't exist, or manufacturing methods don't or can't exist here, so the item can only be made in a specific country or region. There are going to be situations where you just can't have the manufacturing done here.
I don't even know why you're arguing my point, when my point is simply that it is going to take a long-ass time to actually set manufacturing back up here for those that would even want to do it, so just blanket tariffing as much as possible, as quickly as possible is stupid.
