You want to cut my hair for cheap? No, I am going to stab myself in the eye with the scissors. Haha, you lose.
Seriously though, tariffs can help (as part of a bigger strategy) to develop and protect important industries. You probably want a surgical approach in applying them, though.
If any of this actually happened (unlikely), I’d expect the US to start a very long slide to irrelevance.
You want to cut my hair for cheap? No, I am going to stab myself in the eye with the scissors. Haha, you lose.
Seriously though, tariffs can help (as part of a bigger strategy) to develop and protect important industries. You probably want a surgical approach in applying them, though.
If any of this actually happened (unlikely), I’d expect the US to start a very long slide to irrelevance.