[fermienrico]

Would you agree with Trump’s stance on reducing American reliance on Chinese manufactured goods? Trump has been doing that since his election.

[int_19h]

Reducing the reliance is a good idea in principle. The way they actually went about it was not, though.

[jagger27]

Oh, is that what the tariffs are for?

[leereeves]

Even the NY Times agrees with that.

> From tax cuts to relaxed regulations to tariffs, each of President Trump’s economic initiatives is based on a promise: to set off a wave of investment and bring back jobs that the president says the United States has lost to foreign countries.

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/13/business/economy/donald-t...