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I understand where he's coming from, but I personally disagree about us being worse off. It's a usage tax. Buy domestic and don't pay the tariffs. Frankly, there's never been enough pressure on exporters to keep goods in the country of origin either, so the reciprocal tariffs will hopefully put some pressure there.
This assumes it can be produced domestic, and if it can, at the same price. Labour cost and all.
And also that the companies won't just raise prices on domestic goods anyway because what are you gonna do about it? You either pay the inflated price for domestic, or pay the tariff.
You get it.
The supply chain costs often never existed, and they certainly never went away even after the "crisis."
Allowing domestic producers to raise their prices by removing international competition is precisely the point of tariffs.