03-23-2018, 09:55 AM
(03-23-2018, 01:51 AM)BFritz21 Wrote: The point of these tariffs is that he's trying to change that and put American workers back to work to produce goods that are also bought here because more people will have money to do so.
Doesn't work that way. We aren't a country who wants to do menial jobs like the production jobs of the things we import, especially at the wage you have to pay people to do those jobs to sell the products at the prices we demand all while being profitable. The more likely thing that will happen is there will be more investment in robots and automation to simply eliminate the positions as a whole. People need to get over this idea that we are going to return to this heavily manufacturing driven economy with people in factories making solid wages and living the American dream. That era gave everyone a standard of living that outpaced the wages to do those jobs and in order to pay those jobs today what it would take the repercussions is inflation to balance it out getting us very little if any net gain.
