re: Has anyone opposing tariffs and is "of authority" offered a solution?

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Is that all you got? Come on, do better.

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shite comments get shite responses. Take your own advice KiwiBrain.

The solution is moving to a consumption tax. The Fair Tax would make US produced goods more competitive in foreign markets. It would bring manufacturing back to America, because corporations would not be taxed at all. It would achieve all the goals that tariffs are supposed to achieve without the negative economic effects.

A solution to what?

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This is a "moving target" issue common with MAGA-ites.

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I'm not the most well known poster on this board, but I made my opinions about Trump be known well before the election.

My problem is the sky screaming about reciprocal tariffs. Does the average American think companies that employ other Americans should just lose potential profits because they have to price exported goods to compensate for the inbound country's tariffs?


Also.we see the decline of the middle class and it's not one thing driving it. Bringing jobs and manufacturing back to the States is sorely needed.and if tariffs wakes up people to realize that, so be it.

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To what, exactly?

The purported problems are iin doubt for many.

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So your solution is to wish them away.

Lawyers are useful for anything besides shifting money around and getting a cut of it.

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A solution to what?


Tariff imbalances

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Your solution is to tax American consumers, lower the standard of living, and eventually crush GDP growth. That is what happens with your solution. Just be ready.

Also if all tariffs go away, which we want, that still doesn't guarantee manufacturing is/will come back to the US. You do realize that, don't you?

This tariff war has shown just how stupid democrats are. They are so lost their only arguments are, there's not a trade problem, we shouldn't treat allies this way, it's gonna cause prices to go up, blah, blah, blah.

American companies operating in Brazil barely make profits because of the import tariffs of supplys and equipment. But a Brazilian company can operate in the US with no import tariffs. You don't think that's wrong and unfair?

This is typical with most foreign countries.

I think the people that are against tariffs live in a bubble and haven't seen what other countries do to us when it comes to trade.

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Bringing jobs and manufacturing back to the States is sorely needed.

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What jobs and manufacturing do you want to bring back / create?

Obviously clothing manufacturing won't come back in any significant numbers. Car manufacturing? Car parts?

The main jobs that we could "bring back" are service jobs like call centers or IT.

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Tariff imbalances

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“Tariff imbalances” implies some nations are taxing U.S. exports while we aren’t taxing theirs—or are taxing less. The instinct is to “even the playing field” with retaliatory tariffs. But economically, that’s self-defeating.

From a pure free-market perspective, the most efficient and wealth-generating policy isn’t matching others’ bad policies—it’s eliminating our own. If the U.S. were to:
• Eliminate all tariffs, and
• Drop the corporate tax rate to zero,

…we would trigger a capital and productivity boom.

Here’s why:
1. Tariffs hurt our own consumers and businesses. They are taxes that raise prices, distort markets, and reduce economic efficiency. Even if other countries keep tariffs, we still benefit from cheaper inputs, lower consumer prices, and more efficient allocation of resources. That’s straight from Ricardo’s Law of Comparative Advantage.
2. Zero corporate tax would make the U.S. the premier destination for global capital. Multinationals would relocate. Domestic firms would reinvest. We’d see soaring job creation, productivity gains, and wage growth. We’d outcompete globally by making our economy the most investment-friendly in the world.
3. Combined, these policies would drive an economic explosion. Cheaper goods, lower input costs, higher profits, massive investment inflows—these all translate into real GDP growth.

Yes, it’s politically unrealistic right now. And yes, there are national security and transitional considerations in certain sectors. But from a strictly economic lens, these policies would make us wealthier and more competitive—regardless of what other nations do.

So if the problem is “tariff imbalances,” the best economic solution isn’t to match dumb policies—it’s to stop taxing our own citizens and producers in the name of fairness.

He must have downvoted you