No. She’s supposed to CREATE the factory and make jobs, you know, immediately.
Comment on US small business owner says China tariffs endanger her company: ‘I could lose my home’
jeena@piefed.jeena.net 1 week ago
Why doesn't she just find a US supplier, isn't that the intended outcome of tariffs?
Professorozone@lemmy.world 1 week ago
JasonDJ@lemmy.zip 1 week ago
Yeah just go on down to the factory outlet. Tons of factories there.
Manufacturing doesn’t exist in the US. Not at any significant scale. That industry has long left, and it’s not coming back unless it is cost effective to do so.
Do tariffs make it cost effective? Probably not. Americans are expensive to employ, comparably. We’d have to lower/remove minimum wage and automate away as many jobs as possible, or else the price will surely rise more than just dealing with the tarrif.
And even if it were cost effective to manufacture here, you can’t just so n up that size of industry at the drop of a hat. Especially if you’re in the middle of deporting all the construction workers and enticing all of the engineers to flee to Europe.