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Can someone steelman US tariffs for me? Is there a way that tariffs (or more likely, the threat of tariffs) is a plausible economic policy?
Would you need a large market to be accessible for sales so that overall profit would outway the labor and regulatory costs in establishing production back in the US?
What do you mean by “plausible?”
Tariffs are a way to incentivize something other than pure efficiency. Pay more, but get it made at home. The question is how much more, and what you’re getting instead. In a great-power conflict, that’s supposed to be security.
Trump’s narrative, where bringing manufacturing back home will make it better overall, probably isn’t going to pan out.
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