I mean it’s an inherently anti-consumer policy, the question is if that hit to consumer choice is worth it for the manufacturers that are getting a leg up, or to kneecap a foreign adversary who’s making a play at market capture.
Trump doesn’t have anything close to the market awareness to make these judgement calls with any degree of accuracy outside of tariffing literally everything that’s imported and hoping it hits some of the right spots.
I mean, tariffs can definitely make sense if a country is making extremely cheap alternatives that destroy the local industry or if another country sells insanely cheap options to get a monopoly on the market to then increase the price.
I mean it’s an inherently anti-consumer policy, the question is if that hit to consumer choice is worth it for the manufacturers that are getting a leg up, or to kneecap a foreign adversary who’s making a play at market capture.
Trump doesn’t have anything close to the market awareness to make these judgement calls with any degree of accuracy outside of tariffing literally everything that’s imported and hoping it hits some of the right spots.
I mean, tariffs can definitely make sense if a country is making extremely cheap alternatives that destroy the local industry or if another country sells insanely cheap options to get a monopoly on the market to then increase the price.