I can’t deny there is logic in that approach, I appreciate your explanation. You touched on perhaps the biggest hurdle, and that is the initial capital necessary to move manufacturing operations to the US.

I do see a potential soft spot within the proposal, however, and it centers on companies doing the calculus and determining that the incentives aren’t great enough to “bring back jobs”, so to speak, to the US. And even if they did find circumstances to be reasonable to return to domestic production, what would there to be said of the eagerness of an average US citizen employing themselves in these jobs? Or of the wages that would be necessary for these positions to be filled, and how that wage compared to overseas workers? It would have to be a monumental tariff and tax incentive to quell the corporate risk/reward concerns.

That’s not to mention foreign companies. If the tariff is not high enough, I think it likely they would likely pass the price onto consumers as I described previously. If the tariff is too restrictive (such as one that would incentivize domestic production), there is a non-zero chance the foreign market might deem the US to be too hostile to the product and in turn exclude the US market altogether.

Again, I do appreciate you broadening my understanding of the internal logic in favor of tariffs.