america has one of the largest reserves of natural resources, it's why in the 1950's the us was basically at the top of the world. we not only used our own natural resources, we produced everything from cars to clothes to manure, now we produce nothing and simply buy cheap shit laced with lead from places like india or mexico. america just ltierally needs to produce its own shit and therefore buy its own stuff so to speak and keep all the money in the local economy. selling stuff to other countries actually makes the seller more powerful and takes away from the buyer, tariffs reduce this interaction between the two and incentivize home production/purchasing.
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