> This is an inherently political subject, but I would appreciate a dispassionate argument explaining how this could be even remotely good for the U.S.'s economy in a way that is light on MAGA ideology and doesn't simply claim the overwhelming majority of economists are dumb.
The slim hope to a voting bloc in the Upper Midwest that maybe, somehow, this will bring back manufacturing.
They've tried everything else; why not this?
We can't simply legally punish the people who shipped the factories off and drove the region into despair, so why not tax the stuff the factories made overseas as a part of the trade-off?
I'm not saying it's a good idea, I'm saying this is their logic.
The slim hope to a voting bloc in the Upper Midwest that maybe, somehow, this will bring back manufacturing.
They've tried everything else; why not this?
We can't simply legally punish the people who shipped the factories off and drove the region into despair, so why not tax the stuff the factories made overseas as a part of the trade-off?
I'm not saying it's a good idea, I'm saying this is their logic.