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America underestimates the difficulty of bringing manufacturing back

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842 points putzdown | 1 comments | 15 Apr 25 13:50 UTC | HN request time: 0.226s | source
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csense ◴[15 Apr 25 14:14 UTC] No.43693018[source]▶
There are plenty of people saying these tariffs will not work.

But a person used to be able to graduate high school and get a job that could support a house with a yard, a car, a non-working spouse and children.

How we get that level of prosperity back? That's the people really want. Tariffs are simply a means to that end.

I wish people would stop writing articles about 100% criticizing tariffs and instead write articles 50% about criticizing tariffs and 50% brainstorming alternative solutions to achieve the same objective.

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1. testing22321 ◴[16 Apr 25 12:45 UTC] No.43704760[source]▶
> How we get that level of prosperity back?

It’s so simple it hurts. Stop the ruling class hoarding all the wealth.

Top tax bracket used to be 94%.

Have a VERY steep wealth tax, an inheritance tax and whatever else is needed. The fact individuals exist with many hundreds of millions of dollars while so many in the same society are struggling so bad is a disgrace.