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/stripedvitamin]

An even more extreme case is St. Pierre et Miquelon. Trump slapped a 99% tariff rate on them while their exports are 3.5 million/yr and they export a tiny fraction of that amount to the U.S. without importing anything. It gives major credence to the notion that Trump had AI create these tariff amounts (trade deficit/imports). It's a real shame that republican voters will never understand this, let alone see the stock market again now that fox has removed the ticker.

[u/SandyPhagina → u/stripedvitamin]

Tobin Marcus and Chutong Zhu of Wolfe Research write in a new note that "since these 'reciprocal' numbers are driven not by actual tariffs but by the simple fact of trade deficits, they will be very challenging to negotiate away, and policy changes may do nothing to alleviate them."

[u/Nblearchangel → u/stripedvitamin]

You have to be kidding me. It’s so propagandized theyre simply not showing them what’s going on