Negative Space: tariffs
- Is job loss to automation inevitable?
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We aren’t losing jobs to automation. We’re losing jobs to an impenetrable regulatory morass and artificial costs added by establishment politicians. Punishing companies for having businesses in the United States only makes companies not start up in the United States.
- My job fell in the (oil) well
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Through steel tariffs, we killed tens of thousands of jobs in industries that use steel by raising the cost of steel in the United States. Now Irwin M. Stelzer wants to do the same to industries that use oil. That is, all of them. Everyone uses energy.
- Tariff panic: Competing visions of America
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One of the amazing things missed in all the Trump tariff talks is that Trump seems to genuinely believe that Americans can compete on a level playing field. That’s very rare among the political class. As we head into the Sestercentennial it would be nice to believe in American workers again.
- Trump, tariffs, and the war on American workers
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Why do so many American workers support Trump so strongly against the wishes of their union leadership? Partly because only Trump recognizes that we’re in a war targeting American workers.
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- Jobs Versus Net Jobs
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“One of the reasons for the popularity of political rhetoric is that everybody can be right, in terms of their own rhetoric, no matter how much the rhetoric of one side contradicts the rhetoric of the other side.”
- Why is it cheaper overseas?
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“Are we off shoring manufacturing? Or are we offshoring environmental issues and exploitative worker treatment? If the reason is that it’s so much cheaper overseas, the why is it so much cheaper is an extremely important factor to know.”
- World cheers Trump's 10% tariff
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“Watching the Trump’s Tariff War from afar, I find it hilarious. He has managed in the past week to get the world to accept a 10% tariff on everything while triggering Red China to engage in an actual tariff war that is financially suicidal for the communist regime.”
- 10 Questions With Thomas Sowell
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“The number of jobs in the steel is exceeded many times over in industries making steel products, from automobiles to oil rigs, refrigerators, locomotives, etc., etc. Tariffs that save jobs in the steel industry mean higher steel prices, which in turn means fewer sales of American steel products around the world and losses of far more jobs than are saved.”
