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Biden's 5 year plan (hexbear.net)

submitted 6 months ago by Alsephina@lemmy.ml to c/usa@lemmy.ml

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[–] niucllos@lemm.ee 45 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

Tariffs in general aren't inherently bad if they protect domestic interests, especially against a foreign power that is subsidizing production as part of an economic power play. If Trump had limited his tariffs to China and Russia not included all of our allies I would have agreed with him. If we didn't desperately need more EVs and if US automakers weren't such colossal assholes about making good cheap EVs I'd agree with this one

[–] PowerCrazy@lemmy.ml 7 points 6 months ago

We don't "desperately" need more EVs. But if you want more domestically produced EVs for some reason, you nationalize the auto-industry and mandate them. Tariffs in capitalism just mean that the protected industries increase profits on the same or even less supply.