> the first one to set up manufacturing infrastructure in the usa and give americans jobs gets an almost unopposed monopoly for a period of time - no competition, free money.  your premise is flawed from the start: it is not free money, because companies would need to spend way more money to build factories and pay people competitive wages. this shit is not going to happen overnight. it's not going to happen in four years. for the companies that can set up in a shorter time frame, they will have every incentive to charge more for the same products to maximize their profit margin. and throughout that period, prices will go up, and consumer spending will go down. the only thing temporary about this is how long it will take to roll back the tariffs after people start blaming trump for the impending recession.
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