10 ordinary items hit by Uncle Sam

I am a manufacturer and there is nothing I would love more than to make my products in the US.  Federal and State regulations plus employee benefit and entitlement programs have forced me to move 98% of my manufacturing offshore or go out of business as Americans are not willing to pay the price of American manufactured goods.  My selling prices are lower today than they were in the 1970's.  All we ask for is a 2% profit margin and for managers and executives to be paid as well as the craft workers we employ.

Tariffs not only effect things like cars and solar panels, they effect raw materials, steel, copper, oil, etc. which in turn leads to more costly goods here which are harder to sell abroad. No, tariffs do not help jobs here in the US. Tariffs are designed to help big businesses stay in business against smaller, more efficient businesses here at home and from cheaper goods abroad. The only thing tariffs do in the long run is hurt consumers. Period. There is no upside to tariffs. Any economist worth his salt will explain this fact to you. Couple tariffs with oppressive governmental regulations and you have the means to destroy an economy which is what our gov't has been trying to do for decades. It is only due to the power of human innovation and somewhat free people that our economy has not  completely been dumped in the toilet. I can only imagine the prosperity we would have seen without gov't intervention.