MAGA theory: "If we impose tariffs, manufacturing will just move stateside!"
Reality: plans, permits, construction, logistics, environmental impact studies, regulatory compliance, etc. take years to process.
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That reality doesn't negate the theory.
It definitely counters the implicit assumptions the tariff advocates hold. It really just means life gets even more expensive when many are already struggling. It creates no jobs, and raises the costs entrepreneurs need to pay to get new businesses off the ground.
I would say it simply illustrates the fact that you cannot quickly fix something that we've spent generations breaking. America's unwillingness to embrace any solution without immediate results is the main reason we never do anything reasonable.
You don't fix it with arbitrary dictates and arbitrary cost impositions. You fix it with real free trade instead of their counterfeits, you end protectionist regulations stifling competition, and you stop taxing everything. Trump and Congress have done none of these.
You can't have real free trade unless everyone globally agrees to abide by it, which is why protectionist regulations exist.
You can't have free trade and a tariff war. The latter cannot lead to the former. Protectionism is a flawed concept. In fact, the only way to free trade is by unilateral deregulation. Tariffs punish the citizenry of countries imposing them more than they punish others.
Unilateral deregulation is a unicorn, and not a guarantee of free trade. Without regulation, all free trade systems will eventually devolve to monopoly. This is just human nature... nobody involved in trade actually wants free trade, they want to be on top.
2 days ago Trump declared an Emergency in cal and opened up timber sales to thin and build fire lines on national forests.
National forests are at least under the claimed authority of the federal government. Different matter entirely.
Took* years to process
Dont you think Trump will speed all of that up aswell? :D
Nope. Most (if not all) of that is at municipal, county, and state level. Way outside his sphere of authority even if he continues ignoring that idea.
He could just change that though x)
Not without starting civil war.
You dont think Trumps voters wants less regulation? oO
Honestly, I don't think most of his voters understand regulation at all.
It doesn't matter what his voters want, he doesn't have the authority to change state law. If he tries to claim that authority, there will either be civil war, or the states will no longer exist.
But he also doesn't care about the state judges already? xD
Wyoming North Dakota and South Dakota are already moving forward. rigs are popping up new timber sales happening and coal expansion underway. all being fast tracked