• thejml@lemm.ee
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    1 month ago

    He emphasized that the proposed tariffs would leave companies with no choice but to invest in domestic production facilities to avoid high taxes.

    No choice except the obvious: Pass the cost of the Tax into the customer because there’s no way they’re going to spend billions to stand up a US fab plant anytime soon.

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      1 month ago

      That’s just how tariffs work. They’re not a weapon against enemy nations. They’re a tax on Americans.

      And nobody is going to bring production back to this fascist slave pen of a country.