China is the second biggest consumer market in the world, and American consumers outspend Chinese consumers 3 to 1. If you legitimately think that a majority of industries are going to willingly give up 3/5 of their entire consumer market when the past shows they are willing to move house just to be able to trade with other countries then you're wrong.
What does that have to do with anything? The point is if you want to bring in a manufacturing sector you have to do it cheaper than China, Vietnam, India, etc. Which is only possible with lower labor regulations OR tariffs. And if you do tariffs you can't export it to the rest of the world because it would only be cheaper inside America.
I'm excited for a rebirth of locally produced clothing at improved prices, it'll take some years to fully pan out, but you bet your ass I'll buy clothing made in America that lasts a decade over any Temu trash that disintegrates after two months
It won't be, not like this, you can't just slap tariffs on all the biggest trading partners and expect free market magic to bring back manufacturing jobs, these supply lines have been utilized for decades and would take many years to re-create.
What the fuck is a "welfare country"?
Most non Western countries are net exporters, not importers, they straight up can't afford exports from the overinflated American economy denominated in dollars.
What the fuck are you talking about? A third of Tesla's revenue, the most overvalued American corporation by far, is from selling carbon credits.
Dude the average car costs about 12k to make, a 100% on China means that car manufacturers (whether they be American companies in China or just Chinese companies) lose FIVE TIMES AS MUCH MONEY ON TARIFFS than if they were to just pay 20 dollars an hour salary and produce over here. Companies are not going to take 5 times the amount of damage just to ship.
NATO countries will provide support at the behest of America, see: the iraq war. If theres something somewhere in the thousands of treaties signed to create NATO that contradicts feel free to call me out, Im not as brushed up on those treaties as others. But the North ATLANTIC Treaty Organization denotes that members are in that sphere of influence or adjacent. In reality what they are, are little more than vassal states to America. I understand Taiwan is not a member but if America comes knocking, so does most of the rest of NATO usually, see; the war on terrorism.
Feelings should not drive economic policy. This is why populism is foolish in practice and the economically illiterate should be disenfranchised at all levels of government.
As someone in a much worse country (BONG) i'm all for it. The only hope we have is the USA kickstarting either a) a globlal economic revolution that benefits everyone or b) some gay war that ends with us getting nuked. I'm all for the latter, but i hope for the former.
So the American will pay 100k for a car and the European will pay 20k? Why is that a good thing?
What does "produce over here" entail? A car is a complex industrial product and requires thousands of components and incredibly complex supply chains, you can't fabricate car components in your backyard with a patriotic steel mill. The tariffs are not for finished cars, they're for everything. Electronics, wiring, steel sheets, paint, "producing" a car is a complex procurement web requiring the importation of many parts and resources, because other countries are established and have the supply chain and know-how to produce these parts reliably, better and cheaper than domestically. All of those are now tariffed and the consumer will pay the cost.
No you don't get it. Actually we should make it as hard as possible for wypipo to have kids, and then import millions of brown foreigners so they can send the welfare we pay them to the third world.
I want this shit narrative to die. The majority of US debt is owned by the US. Foreign countries have only a fraction of that debt
Education is wasted on a good portion of the population if given to them, and it inevitable leads to a inflation of degrees and certifications. If everyone has a degree then the degree is worthless.
I'm rooting for "Both", personally. Fuck them boomers, fuck the wandering billionaire elite, and because I'm at the very bottom and have no hope of ever crawling out anyway, fuck all the other crabs in this bucket.
If you're whining about the U.S. you should be legally required to post hands.
I am not even saying all that. I just say that there needs to be a government kept up alternative for basics.
Pajeets don't need pods. Pajeet living standards are below 19th century US or early 20th century soviet. They don't even need an outhouse that's a wooden shack on a dig pit. You can stuff 20 pajeets into a tiny shed and as long as they don't freeze its poo heaven.
They are slaves, and they should pivot to China, if they won't it is because they are US compromised. We saw Germoney rather die than make peace with Russia and build reactors.
Britain? Such antisemitism, oy vey.
