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  • THIS IS WHY TARIFFS NEVER WORK. In the long term tariffs actually encourage manufacturing to leave the country charging tariffs, not move manufacturing there. It’s much cheaper to pay the tariffs once, on the final product, than to pay the tariffs on every part that is required moving back and forth across an “imaginary line” (border in Trump-speak).

    None of Trump’s tariff bolstering hurts Apple at all. They are a global company and can easily adjust around the asinine policies of America for a few years. Americans will get sick of paying a minimum of 25% more for EVERYTHING, while the rest of the world continues on as if nothing happened. Eventually Americans will see that the rest of the world has all the nice things and they’ve become a self imposed Soviet-era block country that has nothing and has to line up for toilet paper, and they’ll be right pissed. Until then, enjoy your delusion. 👏


  • Great. So, even if manufacturing does return to the USA – the jobs will not. As everyone predicted. What is the difference if robots have all the manufacturing jobs on US soil instead of foreigners in China? Correct. There is none. Except the company has avoided paying the tariff — whose only purpose was to “bring the jobs back”.

    Quite simply we must boycott any company using robotics. The Trump tariffs are an insane policy, lowering America’s standing in the world, destroying the world economy (and there will be unexpected blow back for that too) and they should be immediately reversed.