This is basic economics that the administration refuses to understand.
Trade allows you to consume beyond your nation’s manpower and resource constraints.
And it’s even stupider when you’re putting tariffs on raw materials like Canadian lumber. So not only do we need to magically find millions of workers to work in these new factories we also need to find a bunch of lumberjacks and start cutting down our own trees? We’re at 4% unemployment, who’s going to do this work?
We literally don’t have the people to make this work.
Trade allows you to consume beyond your nation’s manpower and resource constraints.
And it’s even stupider when you’re putting tariffs on raw materials like Canadian lumber. So not only do we need to magically find millions of workers to work in these new factories we also need to find a bunch of lumberjacks and start cutting down our own trees? We’re at 4% unemployment, who’s going to do this work?
We literally don’t have the people to make this work.