I saw a post where a small business owner was quoted as saying “We’ve effectively been told to cease U.S. operations entirely.” - yes, that’s *exactly* what this is.
That’s something lots of American folks don’t seem to understand about tariffs and what they are for:
You’re not expected to pay them.
You’re expected to be unwilling or unable to buy foreign-made things anymore.
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#tariffs #UsPolitics #Politics #trade
(Credit to my colleague Jeff S. for this post.)
Anyone who thinks that the USA is going to become "factory to the world" again is hallucinating!
That mantle has now passed to China, Vietnam, Thailand and other 'developing' countries.
What we are witnessing is the decline of a once great power; the USA is in terminal decline just like the decline of the greatest empire the world has ever seen, the British empire, just like the decline of other gigantic powers - the Roman empire, the Ottoman empire, the Russian empire/soviet union, the Spanish empire, the French and so on
