But you mean your company isn’t willing to make a years long investment in on-shore manufacturing capacity when the scales that make it advantageous to the company can change in any direction, at any point, for any made-up reason, by any amount? Don’t they love investing in America?

/s+++

Never listen to the reason they claim to be doing something, look only to what they are doing. And that, quite clearly, day after day indicates that they are doing everything they can to destroy the USA, as quickly as possible. Once one has determined what they are doing, then ask who does this benefit.

Tariffs aren't designed to bring manufacturing back. It's designed to crush the US economy for Daddy Putin. It's designed to starve out the plebs. It's designed to bankrupt companies to be bought by the billionaire class for pennies on the dollar.

The way I see, ~~Trump's~~ the Trump Administration's motives are:

(1) Plunder the government of anything of value.

(2) Cause a recession so rich can buy everything up on the market.

(3) Sabotage America geopolitically on behalf of foreign adversaries, most notably Russia.

(4) Cement power in their control and go after any rivals.

Edit: For clarification, I don't think it really matters what part of this is Trump himself versus the people he surrounds himself with and permits as the executive to do what they're doing in their own personal agendas that align with one or more of these 4 points.

That's the point. Destroy America but keep idiots voting for it.

This is what I’ve been saying, building factories is already an expensive and time consuming process, then you slap high prices on everything you need to make a factory work it’s going to be out of reach for basically anyone and the few who can afford it likely wouldn’t anyway because like this describes it’s not fiscally responsible but also the US is in decline why would you be putting an enormous investment into a wildly unstable system? If you want manufacturing in the US building factories needs to be reasonable price wise and you need consumers with the funds to do the consuming, neither of which can be delivered now

The math is such that I expect to see companies that make things in the us leave. Makes more sense to build in the UK and add the 10% tarriff for your thing made of chinese parts than absorb the XX% chinese tarriffs and have to raise the price even more in the us. If the product is sold abroad at all its a slam dunk to move out.

The world has no appetite for his big beautiful luxury goods store.

USA used to be the managers and leaders of these factories, now he wants them to be the grunt workers and for some reason people are all for it.

you were warned months before, and even before the election. dont act surprised, you thought his only legislation was tax cuts, but it wasnt , he was pushing things further along the line for PUTIN.

So first Trump prevents any ex-allies to the US from trading with them

Then Trump prevents factories from being opened in the US to produce goods locally

What kind of 6D backgammon is this?

the supply chain to produce those goods in the United States simply isn’t there

This is what everyone has been saying ad-nauseum since this whole shit show started.

Just imagine the profits from artificial scarcity, end of times riots and price gouging the ever living shit out of every citizen you can.

Right, this is why an intelligent leader might use tariffs to bring back manufacturing, in a very targeted way and matched with incentives to help build what is missing.

This is someone who heard that you could use a hammer in conjunction with nails to build a house so starts swinging mjolnir in every direction

It was never possible even under normal circumstances

You can't make long term plans for building factories, sourcing raw materials and hiring people if the Dynamite Monkey in Chief can blow it all up on a whim.

back to the mines!

So how come the people in MANUFACTURING couldn't see his proposal in MANUFACTURING was a big crock of shit?

BRB, setting up my backyard forge after years of not smooshing any metal. Looks like it's up to people like me to make all this complicated tool&die