The Trump administration’s tariff scheme appears less and less likely to bring manufacturing jobs back to U.S. shores.

Businesses across the country are crunching the numbers and realizing that, despite Donald Trump’s insistence, they can’t balance out his tariff hikes across the supply chain.

ā€œSome manufacturers who had plans to open factories in the country say the new duties are only adding to the significant obstacles they already faced,ā€ Bloomberg reported Friday.

That’s because the supply chain to produce those goods in the United States simply isn’t there, requiring companies to import raw materials and factory equipment—which Trump’s tariffs have made unaffordable—from abroad.

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    You got to stop to call them incompetent. It’s on purpose. They’re traitors and are yearning for a crash.

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      Don’t fall for the simple explanation. Both answers are true. The objectives are all about greed and betrayal, but the means are still heavily driven by incompetence. Just because someone is a criminal does not make them a competent criminal.

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        Theyre not competend at leading a government.

        Theyre very competend in destruction of it, and since that’s their goal, it’s dangerous to assume they’re incompetent.

        Never underestimate your foes.

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      There are easier, safer way to crash the economy that are far less public

      I get the feeling those who insist there is a plan, just don’t want to admit the emperor has no clothes

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          Which is hardly a plan… more like a collection of terrible ideas

          Remember that the entire Tariff nonsense is the brain child of Navarro who literally invented a supposed expert to justify how they could work. This is literally a fraudulent idea to fill a shitty book that, by terrible happenstance, found an idiot stupid and powerful enough to implement it

          We are lucky Trump did not find Jack and Beanstalk first or he would be opening holes anywhere to plant magic seeds