I'm not sure it would help for your proof. It just shows the new higher price now.

Well someone didn't really care to understand what I was actually saying OR do their homework very well.

Please tell me which of these imports (sauce: wiki) cannot be substituted in the short term and is of critical importance. There's pharmaceutical and there's medical and they don't represent a very large chunk of imports. Pharmaceuticals can be made anywhere (they just follow the lowest taxes) and medical equipment... guess who was the world's largest exporter of this? The USA (see table in page 210).

Yes, consumer goods are a big import but they can be substituted to a great degree in the short term and relocated to be manufactured nationally within the mid term. That was kinda what I said, you know, before.

No, I did not miss a zero, thank you. Unskilled labor needs a few months of on boarding at most and the capital moves freely to where the money is to be made. Yes, factories take some years to build but while there's money to be made, they'll be built very fast. The most profitable ones, anyway.

You can make those goods! I believe in you! cheers

How do you think those foreign companies started making them? Who do you think they copied?

It's all stolen US/EU IP and probably a big chunk of the first movers of tech stuff are partially US-owned. All their specifications and that of the machinery that makes them were likely created in the USA or EU. This is easy to understand and see if you look at the auto industry. Anyone can make low skill labor intensive stuff... The difficulty is by definition not in the manufacturing process... The problem is it's usually only convenient for everyone for the country with the cheapest labor to make the stuff cause cheaper. The machinery and facilities required to make these things were likely also designed in the west 90% of the time.

Doubling and tripling prices in exchange for having a living wage for someone who currently has a $0 income is actually a really good deal.

I'm not saying he's not an idiot or that he's capable of empathy. This isn't about that. This is just a good move on its own. Had to be done. Sry. You guys were walking straight to an abyss out of fear of people ~~like you~~ overreacting, like you are now.

Oh and I'm sorry if your portfolio isn't doing well and you're cranky. You'll be back in the greens in no time.

Have a nice week, friend.

edit: I realize saying "people like you overreacting" was unfair. I apologize.

I see you're editing your comment and included something about oil. The decision of petroleum being either extracted or imported is based on local extraction costs vs import prices. This is why I mentioned "allowing for slight energy cost increase". You could very well be importing 100% of your oil and just not extracting your own because slightly more expensive... And once again, this would be giving away labor to the world at the cost of US workers so companies that relied heavily on energy got better profit margins (i.e. mining, logistics, etc)

I don't make the rules. This is just how it works.

This is a the first good argument I've heard from any of you crybabies. OK, you have a point.

You mean like every empire in the history of civilization or dare I say every nation state currently recognized by the UN does?

Yes, it does and that's why they're doing it this way.

Well that's what the US has just done so let's see if that happens.

I fully agree with you but I don't think the orange wankstain is bluffing. I believe that he legitimately thinks he's doing God's work and "making America great again" by completely crashing the entire country.