> I've often wondered why import tariffs and/or local manufacturing subsidies aren't used to address this.
Have you been paying attention the last couple of years? Every time Trump tried to impose tariffs in order to prop up American manufacturers he faced no end of hostility, endless explanations about why tariffs don’t work, etc.
Hopefully this whole fiasco has opened people’s eyes to the fact that we should try to bring home some amount of domestic manufacturing instead of just saying “those jobs are never coming back” like a certain former president once said.
Have you been paying attention the last couple of years? Every time Trump tried to impose tariffs in order to prop up American manufacturers he faced no end of hostility, endless explanations about why tariffs don’t work, etc.
Hopefully this whole fiasco has opened people’s eyes to the fact that we should try to bring home some amount of domestic manufacturing instead of just saying “those jobs are never coming back” like a certain former president once said.