A country that doesn’t make anything quickly dies. Former US trade representative Robert Lighthizer explains how Trump’s tariff program can stop America’s slide.
— Tucker Carlson (@TuckerCarlson) March 19, 2025
(0:00) Why Do We Need to Reinstitute Tariffs?
(6:10) The Slow Death of America’s Working Class
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Excellent.
In 2025, I can put on my headphones and rock out to an hour and a half long in depth discussion of tariffs, industrial policy and American trade policy, which according to some people is “neoconservatism”!
I am a bit more of the Austrian Economics school, so I see tariffs as a tax on domestic consumers to benefit chosen companies. That said, I can see how the positives can in certain cases out weigh the negatives. We definitely do need to make things here. And I would love to replace the income tax with tariffs, though I don’t think that will happen.
20M people are currently attending US universities – many getting useless degrees in stuff like Poly Sci – just so they don’t have to work in factories. Who – exactly – is going to working in all of these new factories making tube socks and electric drills that are magically going to pop up like spring flowers in the rain? Every once in awhile soft-handed pseudo-intellectuals like Carlson and Wallace and Lighthizer who have never worked an honest day’s labor in their lives have these grandiose ideas that somehow American manufacturing is going to experience a rebirth but these plans always wither in the harsh light of reality.