Reply to post: Re: Tariffs are a poor remedy for either issue

China doesn't need to nick western tech when Google is giving it away

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Re: Tariffs are a poor remedy for either issue

>Regardless of what one thinks about Trump, it is pretty obvious that manufacturing jobs have been leaving the US and going to China.

It's not nearly as obvious as you might think. The chief destroyer of US jobs hasn't been China - it's been automation in general.

Trade wars aren't going to 'bring back' those jobs. On the contrary, the high taxes are going to impinge even harder on US prices.

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