Who in the fuck wants these jobs?
This administration has no idea what it wants from this abomination of a policy.
If we're looking to onshore jobs like this loon of a Labor Secretary and our deranged POTUS both want, then we can't use the tariffs as a negotiating tool to keep ourselves from being ripped off and keep fentanyl from crossing the border (because we'd be lifting/lowering the tariffs), and we can't generate tariff revenue to make us rich (because we'd be lifting/lowering the tariffs).
If we're looking to raise revenue because our country was supposedly at it's richest in the 1890's, also per our deranged POTUS, and we can somehow fund our insanely large government via tariff revenue, then we can't use the tariffs as a negotiating tool to keep ourselves from being ripped off and keep fentanyl from crossing the border (because lifting/lowering the tariffs would reduce tariff revenue) and we can't use the tariffs to onshore jobs (because the substitution of imports for domestic production would mean sacrificing the tariff revenue needed to run the government).
If we're looking to use the tariffs as a negotiating chip to make sure the world no longer rips us off and allows fentanyl to cross our borders, also per our deranged POTUS, that means we intend to lift/lower the tariffs. Which means there's no tariff revenue to fund our government and enrich us beyond our wildest dreams, and the tariffs are no longer in place to protect American producers and onshore jobs.
This entire "experiment" is incoherent and contradicts itself at every turn. With the added bonus of kneecapping your 401k, destroying long-standing relationships with allies, raising economic uncertainty to never before seen levels, and yes thethe - raising costs on Americans.
