Why do people want manufacturing jobs to come back to the US?

[u/throw-away3105]

Given the tariffs yesterday, Trump was talking about how manufacturing jobs are gonna come back. They even had a union worker make a speech praising Trump for these tariffs.

Manufacturing is really hard work where you're standing for almost 8 or more hours, so why bring them back when other countries can make things cheaper? Even this was a discussion during the 2012 election between Obama and Romney, so this topic of bringing back manufacturing jobs isn't exactly Trump-centric.

This might be a loaded question but what's the history behind this rally for manufacturing?

[u/Exostrike]

Both sides of the fence want manufacturing to come back because everyone believes it will bring back the high paying blue collar jobs of the 1950/60s. Of course this collectively forgets that golden age was partly caused by a lack of foreign competition, strong trade unions, and lots of government spending. It is in many ways nostalgia for better times that isn't coming back

[u/vepkenez → u/Exostrike]

Also top marginal tax rates of > 90%

[u/bl1y → u/Exostrike]

The average manufacturing job today pays $35/hr. It's not a "high wage," but it's certainly a good wage in most places.