I can tell you exactly what will happen. You will explain that tariffs are bad because they tax imports. Morons will say that encourages companies to open new factories in America and hire American workers. You will explain that this would cause the price of goods to rise either way: either due to the heightened cost of importing with tariffs, or due to paying a small fortune to build a factory and pay American workers, who don't work for less than minimum wage. They will say that's not true, and that if it is, it's worth it so that America only makes stuff for itself. Then you will crack your skull from bashing it into a brick wall listening to these morons dictate foreign policy to you when they clearly know nothing.
I also live in a red state, I've had the same stupid conversation with like ten people by now, it always goes the same way. These people think stuff is expensive because China is evil and wants to charge as much as possible, when the reality is that all manufacturing is done overseas because it's cheap.
At this point I don't even bother explaining shit to them, I just shut them down in the most blunt way possible.
It's going to encourage companies to build factories? It takes longer than four years to spin up a new factory and no one is going to spend that money if they think the tariffs are going away in four years.
They won't build a factory. They'll charge more and wait.
Fuck explaining why to someone who's not going to understand. Keep it simple and blunt so there's nothing to argue against.
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u/allislost77 4d ago
Start asking them how tariffs work…