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    JP> Trump has indicated there will be a 100% import tariff on   
    JP> semiconductors. The only way to avoid it is to promise you will build   
    JP> factories in the U.S... Hence Apple's promise.   
      
   While I recognize the necessity of moving manufacturing state side it is not   
   something that can happen overnight. Furthermore we have a education and   
   cultural problem in the US. We have huge swaths of this country whose   
   education has been little more than propaganda and who are still functionally   
   children despite being thirty years old, I see them every day at work and its   
   painful.   
      
   While the tariffs are a great first step it is not enough. This country and   
   its people need serious help.   
      
   Sadly i think Trump is being "allowed" to deploy these tariffs because the   
   powers that be, whoever "they" are, know the empire needs to raise taxes but   
   that is not popular. The Tariffs serve as a stealth tax increase and Trump is   
   being used to smuggle them in.    
      
   I fear no real work is going to be done to return any significant   
   manufacturing to the US as that involves multi-decade planing. Instead we will   
   have the increased cost of the tariffs and nothing else as plans fall by the   
   wayside and China/India/whoever continue to build what we no longer are   
   capable of building.   
      
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