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Yes, factories do not teleport.

Skilled and willing workers (except, ahem, Mexicans) don't grow on trees in a couple months.

Motivation for companies to pay real wages to Americans doesn't exist

Tariffs are a consumption tax that will probably be highly regressive.

Honestly, it seems like the Trump administration thinks he's they're just playing a game of civilization or some other 4x game and just needs to adjust the slider for a couple cities in order to enact broad-scale production changes.




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