maybe a little. the main problem is two-fold: > tariffs hurt before they help > they are long term strategies let's say we wanted to just slap a tariff computer chips. well fuck now computer chips are more expensive and we still can't make them ourselves. not a productive tariff. it just funds the government and raises costs. if you could instead produce a 20-year plan that said no tariffs for 3-5 years, then an ever increasing tariff u til the conclusion, you would give manufacturers the chance to prepare for the transition. eventually, the plants would become profitable, and eventually they would be cheaper than foreign chips. the problem with 4 year plans is democracy is inherently schizophrenic. biden winning fucked oil industry in the ass because setting up a new refinery or pipeline is a multi-year process. they dumped billions then biden came in and said "lol, no". this is why even properly done tariffs will probably fail. investors will be hesitant about a democrat coming in and bankrupting them with the stroke of a pen like what happened with many industries many times before. trump is effectively using them as a threat though, and many things can be tariffed without significant consequence.
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