Comment by jay_kyburz
7 days ago
I don't know why you are being down-voted, I think you raised some interesting points that add to the discussion.
National security / foreign interference hadn't occurred to me, and now I'm wondering what would happen to US economy and manufacturing if it was at war with China and or the EU over Taiwan and or Greenland.
How would US deal with Russian style sanctions? Can China simply ban all exports to the US?
In times of war, it probably is super important that a country and manufacture all essentials.
> I don't know why you are being down-voted
Just give it a few minutes to settle out. Sometimes people tap the downarrow by mistake, since it's 2mm away from the uparrow. It's not always a conspiracy :-)
If I were a third party downvoting my comment I would probably take issue with the characterization of the anti-tariff position as "save my infinite trough of plastic slop". Other countries do have highly skilled artisans. Tariffs are also considered bad on the merits (looking at it from a liberal [economically] world view). It's like vaccine skepticism to economists: an extremely low-status opinion for kooks and cranks. But I am open to being convinced on illiberal economics (this is not the same thing as saying I support it) because I consider military supply chain erosion a national emergency and I don't think "balloon the military budget even more with subsidies" is a politically viable position and "just build it in an allied country we now have to keep permapoor to make the economics work out" is cruel.