re: The return of manufacturing through tariffs is fantasy

From Chat GPT, and it’s not even the full list:

Key Examples
1. Johnson & Johnson
• J&J announced over $55 billion in U.S. investment over four years.
• They broke ground on a high-tech manufacturing facility in Wilson, North Carolina for next-gen medicines.
• J&J frames part of this as a response to looming import-duties on pharmaceuticals.
2. Roche
• The Swiss pharma giant is investing $50 billion in U.S. operations over five years.
• Planned projects include a 900,000 sq ft plant for weight-loss drugs, a gene therapy facility in Pennsylvania, and R&D sites in several states.
• Roche explicitly links these investments to “tariff concerns” on drug imports. ?
3. Merck
• Merck is building a $1 billion facility in Delaware to produce biologic medicines, including its Keytruda cancer therapy.
• According to Merck, this helps mitigate exposure to potential import costs under U.S. tariff policies.
4. Abbott Laboratories
• Abbott said it will invest $500 million into U.S. manufacturing (and R&D) capacity in Illinois and Texas.
• This is framed in part as preparing for the risk of country-specific levies.
5. Hyundai
• Hyundai announced a $21 billion commitment to U.S. manufacturing from 2025–2028.
• While not all of this may be purely tariff-related, it aligns with reshoring narratives tied to U.S. industrial policy and trade negotiation pressures.
6. IBM
• IBM pledged $150 billion in U.S. manufacturing over five years.
• Part of this is for R&D to support U.S.-based advanced computing and AI, which could factor into supply chain resilience amid tariff shifts.

Know why I love to read the PB? Because there are so many economics experts to enlighten me.

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highly doubt even Vance intends to make tariff policy a centerpiece of his (hypothetical) administration.

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I think you are correct. That is why i believe the best person for POTUS in 28 is Eric Trump. He has been running the Trump companies since Trump came down the elevator in 2015 and has experienced all of the attacks on his father and family. He is young, strong, smart, experienced in business and highly motivated.

100 DAYS OF INVESTMENT: $5+ Trillion in New Investment Fuels America’s Future

Combine the forecasted AI unemployment with the imminent fiscal crisis and I’d wager we will need every job we can get.

Even if it’s just corporate taxes alone, we need to bring everything back that we can.

Getting manufacturing in the US is hard and some of the factories are paid for by grants. The Obama administration gave LG a $151 million grant to open a battery plant in Michigan. After a few years of talks in 2016 LG came to an agreement to build and a plant in Clarksville, TN. Thy used grants and incentives to help build the plant. The announcement was made in February 2017 and finished in 2018. In 2022 LG expanded their EV plants in Michigan, Tennessee, Arizona, and Georgia.

In 2023 a EV battery plant was announced with a $4.3 billion investment from Korea, but in September it and 21 other South Korean ventures were halted after ICE detained around 300 Koreans. Most Korean businesses have started back up.

We need materials from other countries to manufacture what the Korean plants need. If the tariffs are to high it could lead to a halt in building new plants or closing existing plants.

Even though a lot of those manufacturer jobs will be filled with robotics and AI. There will be jobs added for Americans. The biggest obstacle right now is making sure those jobs are filled by actual Americans and not H1B's. Despite what Trump say's. There are no jobs that are to good for the American people. As long as the job pays a fair wage. Americans will do what it takes to learn to get the job done with the highest standards.

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AI is supposed to leave many unemployed. When that happens, you’ll wish you had a sock factory in your town.

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If you live Fort Payne, Alabama you would lucky. They are the official sock capital of the world. They’ve been making socks since 1907

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I did, you're stupid.

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Are you under the impression that billion dollar factories sprout from the ground overnight fully operational and staffed?

There are trillions of dollars of manufacturing projects committed to being built domestically and many of them are already under construction.

It’ll take years for those projects to begin impacting the metrics you referenced.

In the meantime please stop throwing histrionic temper tantrums with zero knowledge of how real world economics and business operations work.

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Freaking boomers

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Is this directed at me? I’m a millennial.

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What tense is "happening?"

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I can tell you’re really struggling with these concepts, but it’s ok I’ll simplify it for you:

Step 1) company commits to building a factory
Step 2) locations are chosen, permits are lined up and financing secured
Step 3) ground is broken and construction is underway including roads, railroad access and power lines
Step 4) construction is complete, machinery is brought in and testing occurs to ensure they meet requirements
Step 5) employees are hired and production begins

All five steps involve the return of manufacturing via tariffs.

Without Trump leveraging tariffs steps 1-5 never happen.

Thanks to the tariffs we are between steps 2-3 with most of the projects that were agreed to.

Your metrics only measure active production and none of the tariff related activity are there yet because some of them are even now still being finalized.