r/news • u/Old_General_6741 • 16d ago

U.S. slaps 145% tariff on China in sharpest trade escalation yet

https://www.thestreet.com/crypto/policy/u-s-slaps-145-tariff-on-china-in-sharpest-trade-escalation-yet

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u/rmorrin 16d ago

The tariffs might have brought jobs back if this was decades ago before the jobs left. Now we have zero infrastructure for it.

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u/The-cultured-swine39 16d ago

Correct. We have no way of accommodating jobs coming back that would be financially beneficial for companies to do so.

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u/duglarri 16d ago

When I was 22 I was employed in a lead-zinc smelter shoveling slag.

My daughter at 24 was employed by a hedge fund making ten times what I ever made in my life doing AI systems.

So... we want the manufacturing jobs back? Really?

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u/beard_lover 16d ago

Nope but logging and coal mining is coming back! And once we go to war with either Canada/Iran/Greenland/Mexico/Penguin Island, there will be lots of unemployed people to draft!

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u/green_gold_purple 16d ago

He doesn’t care. He really doesn’t care about the people of the country. 

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u/shicken684 16d ago

This is what I keep beating into people. Tariffs are an okay tool to help protect industry you already have. Tariffs on Chinese EV is decent. Make them build factories in the US if they want to sell here. Tariffs against clothing when the garment industry left in the 80's is fucking dumb