• Ulrich@feddit.org
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    2 days ago

    the US just doesn’t have enough skilled manufacturing engineers or the supply chain

    That’s because it was all outsourced to China because they utilize cheap/free labor.

    If we had started doing tariffs 30 years ago we could have prevented that. Or if we enacted tariffs as part of a larger plan to slowly transition that industry back over the next 20 years, we could probably do that as well.

    But just slapping a 250% tariff overnight and expecting everything to sort itself out is the kind of a plan only the orange moron could come up with.