[kinsomo]

> You should only be buying from an American supplier, even though we just spent 30 years shutting them all down

> Factories won’t be growing up out of the grown churning out parts in 6 mos because of this

If you wanted to reverse the trend of all the American suppliers getting shut down, and re-build the American manufacturing base, what actions would you take to accomplish that?

[MrMorden]

Eliminate tariffs (and non-tariff barriers) and convince manufacturers they'll stay gone. Separate health-care payments from employment. Ensure that there's an adequate supply of vocational training. Add two zeroes to housing starts everywhere the median house price exceeds three times the median income. Nothing that isn't patently obvious, in other words.

[candiodari]

What about the (many) tariffs and unfair laws on China's side ?

Vocational training requires industry to already exist. That's a chicken and egg issue.

[s73v3r_]

What's with this "rebuild the American manufacturing base" part? The US is already one of the top manufacturers in the world.

[keo93ndn]

We make “a lot of” a few things

What the US lacks is an ability to spin up new manufacturing in the way China can

https://www.inc.com/glenn-leibowitz/apple-ceo-tim-cook-this-...

People that work in manufacturing in America are better described as “assemblers”

The skills to design and “ship” new manufacturing process do not exist here. A dictatorship invested in skills training, with the help of American government (there’s a paper trail in government records leading back to Reagan PAYING to export manufacturing. Not just tax breaks but giving cash money to invest in building new overseas; cause supply side demanded it. I’ll leave it to the reader to investigate under their own agency).

IMO Tesla is leading a revival here, or at least trying to. Cars and their battery/solar work is what people see them as: bleeding edge energy and manufacturing

Wall Street seems to think they’re just a car company. Which is, again IMO, what people shorting Tesla are confused about

People with a clue realize it isn’t just cars and battery pack sales alone

[sheepmullet]

Then why are people in this thread so convinced they can't compete with China on components even with 25% tariffs?

[orf]

Likely due to the reasons they have outlined numerous time in their comments.

[kinsomo]

> What's with this "rebuild the American manufacturing base" part? The US is already one of the top manufacturers in the world.

Maybe so, but the US's manufacturing currently isn't strong enough to balance its massive trade deficits:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_the_largest_trading_pa...