I'm obviously not the first to make this observation, but: if we want to bring back American manufacturing, tariffing most inputs but exempting final consumer goods is just about the exact opposite thing we should be doing?
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MFers are saying we should be building iPhones here while tariffing iPhone parts but not tariffing iPhones? Ok, what?
Also, shitting on the CHIPS act while that *actually* reshored production of components representing 50%+ of the value added in a phone? These are not serious people
Oh yeah, there are still huge tariffs on extremely expensive Japanese and Dutch industrial components that are the literal only things capable of doing certain roles in a modern, competitive semiconductor fab. Brilliant!
Actual smart industrial policy, which Biden did, would encourage us to make iPhone CPU wafers in Arizona then ship them to China and India to do the lower-value work of assembling these expensive parts into iPhones
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Also, shitting on the CHIPS act while that *actually* reshored production of components representing 50%+ of the value added in a phone? These are not serious people
Go to your kitchen, get a cast iron frying pan. Wait for further instructions.