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user-inactivated  ·  2890 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: UNNECESSARIAT

    Slap a 30% tariff on imports and all of a sudden we have a furniture industry again. Lather, rinse, repeat for all durable goods.

We can also remove subsidies and raise taxes on oil at such a rate that we use that money to invest in non-fossil fuels, making the shipping more expensive which adds a taffif-by-another-name to the costs of imported goods. Same way that we can make a major dent in the obesity epidemic by cutting corn and sugar subsidies.