They just move production to Vietnam. It's not like it'll come back here

And we just tariff imports from Vietnam.

Okay, but you're not providing justification. You're just bitching

Let's just tariff the entire third world?

Exactly.

Tariffs on China makes sense because they are an economic competitor.

Vietnam isn't.

Everybody who buys or sells something is an economic competitor.

Don't play semantics. It's childish

>let's have our industry be non competitive because it isn't competitive now

You know what is meant in that statement

I'm speaking textbook economics. I don't know what dialect you're speaking.

Nigger please

Racist

You're speaking "I read a single book about economics"

My car was stolen by a black guy @oprahsminge

You prick

@Existence is identity 10/10

You're speaking in terms of heavy interventionism because the economy isn't working the way you like lol

A lot more than one. And they all define economic activity in the same competitive terms.

Whatever you say bud.

>I don't care what is causing the problem, just tax everyone lol

Lul

Because that works

Who wants our industry to be non-competitive?

You apparently

We are losing to China because we are not competitive

I want as much domestic competition as possible.

Thus the solution isn't to preserve non competitiveness via protectionism

It's to figure out why we aren't competitive

You wanna make people competitive by taking their money?

What the fuck

What you mean is that we're losing a competition with China that we shouldn't even be engaged in.

On what basis?

America does not produce everything it needs, nor is it feasible for it to do so

You dont like global trade?

Competition with the third world to see who can be the most third-world is a fool's game that we shouldn't be playing.

1. You're going to drastically increase the cost of goods
2. You're going to have to heavily industrialize more of your country by a substantial amount, without sufficient monetary inventive existing organically
3. You're probably still not going to have good domestic competition due to the way taxation, lobbying etc works

The purpose is to trade not become like the third world

That and China isn't third world

That makes trade with the third world even stupider then, Make.