Ok, honest response to this question. I appreciate this question. It's difficult to see all of these potential situations clearly. I will just give you my own situation, and you can apply it to the multitudes of different situations that you never imagined possible: We work in stone, we're an architectural stone supplier. Stone is not something that you can produce simply anywhere. A customer comes to us with a stone in mind based on the color and characteristics of the stone. That stone simply doesn't exist everywhere, it only exists where that stone comes from. It's a unique species. It's kind of like buying gems, in a way, but much less expensive. You wouldn't want to buy an emerald, if the salesperson told you it was a diamond. They don't look the same. It might be Turkey or it might be China, or it might be the US, or it might be somewhere in between. I can't move the quarry blocks at an affordable price to the US to manufacture the finished products. You can imagine the quarry blocks are very heavy compared to the finished product, as there is a lot of loss between the blocks and the finished product. Finished product is roughly 25% of the quarry block weight. The cost of the freight would be outrageous. Not everything can be produced in the US at a fair market value. If I moved the blocks to the US for fabrication, I eat the cost of moving the blocks to a new fabrication destination, and pay the costs of fabrication in the US, and no one would buy my product based on the cost. The point is that this shit is complicated. It's not always as easy as saying 'why don't you produce it locally?'.

Furthermore, I produce local US jobs in a lot of industries. I have US draftsmen working for me, I have a US company providing logistics and shipping for me. I have US truck drivers delivering my finished product. I have US forklift operators moving the finished product on site, and I have US masons installing the product on site. They hire US crane operators to move the product to where it needs to land. I feel like what I do is good for the US. Part of my operations are in the US, and part of them are overseas. I don't feel like I should be embarrassed about this at all. Maybe you feel differently, but these tariffs completely fuck up my operations, and therefore impact my ability to continue to do business, generate sales, and also affect the amount of taxes that I will pay to this country. Also, the people I employ in the US will lose their jobs if I go out of business. Is that a win for the US? I don't think it is, but maybe you feel differently.