cbrookre
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I agree with the incentives for companies to build and sell here, but the challenge is in the shipping costs. Once we charge tariffs on imports then other countries respond, and we really want to sell our goods outside of the US. Not fully cut and dry. We need to have policies that makes companies want and enabled to hire US employees, and the public will (in general) support US made goods if they are of comparable or better quality and cost in the same range as overseas goods.... (3) relatively inexpensive shipping pathway back to market.
It is my opinion that #3 needs to be where "regulation" or "tariff" occurs as that is where the most environmental cost comes from. Something that is not immediately realized, but making XYZ parts in China, after sourcing the materials from Brazil or the USA or Canada or all over, then shipping them back to the primary US market burns A LOT of carbon and nuclear fuel, pollutes the hell out of our oceans, and requires massive investment in very costly, very coastal shipping/receiving infrastructure that ultimately ends up on the shoulders of, you guessed it, the taxpayer.
We must incent companies to build and sell here and making shipping costs high enough that making it elsewhere and then shipping it here costs more and/or is more variable than just making it here and selling it here.
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