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Subject: Re: silca and Tariffs
Date: Sat, 26 Apr 2025 14:06:12 -0500
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On 4/26/2025 12:41 PM, Catrike Ryder wrote:
> On 26 Apr 2025 09:14:12 GMT, Roger Merriman <roger@sarlet.com> wrote:
> 
>>
>> <https://youtu.be/VKz5J5PPt-Q?si=ntPrbZPhCguTIuQM>
>>
>>
>> Josh of Silca does a good job of explaining how the tariffs are effecting
>> US companies certainly small ones, as ever it’s a moving target so may well
>> change.
>>
>> Roger Merriman
> 
> Many countries have tariffs on products from the USA. I see no reason
> why the USA shouldn't have tariffs on their products. Maybe it will
> bring manufacturing back, maybe not. The USA used to be a
> manufacturing powerhouse and the bureaucratic jackasses let it slip
> away. I don't know if Trump's plans can save the country, but it was
> definatly going to hell with the same old, same old plans. At least
> he's trying something new.
> 
> --
> C'est bon
> Soloman

I am in complete agreement on the importance and benefit of 
removing disparate tariffs.

I can't agree that it will make a significant difference in 
industrial production. With our Byzantine regulations, bans, 
permits, reviews and so on, plus unions, and a combination 
of apathy and lack of skills in younger generations ('don't 
know. don't care') there's no obvious path to refining our 
huge stores of rare earths, making steel from our excellent 
iron ore and coking coal, building ships once more or a 
gazillion other lost industrial projects.

Reciprocal tariffs are good, and moral, but the effect will 
be about the same as increasing the oceans' volume by 
pissing in them.

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Andrew Muzi
am@yellowjersey.org
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