Is tariff a move to the right direction?

As a libertarian, I of course, do not like tariffs.

However, we live in society and often have to compromise between various evils and pick the lesser ones.

Not choosing means choosing to have non libertarian choosing the outcome for us. Let’s just say, not choosing so we are not morally responsible is not the sort of mindset any successful businessmen have.

https://www.cnbc.com/2024/12/23/trumps-25percent-tariffs-an-existential-threat-to-canadas-auto-industry.html

Imagine government impose tariffs from company A and don’t do the same from company B. So many things can go wrong right? Company B must have bribed and so on. Ideally, none should pay tariffs. However, imposing tariffs to Company B too may be more libertarian.

The same way allowing tariffs free imports but not allowing cheap workers import can cause lots of market distortion. Perhaps imposing tariffs on both can be a move toward the right direction? I don’t know. I still don’t like it. Well, Trump is better than Commiela anyway.

US and most western countries ALREADY have effective tariffs.

Namely immigration laws. Immigration laws are effectively tariffs for work. Immigration laws keep prices of menial workers’ salary high. Salary in western countries are higher than salaries in Indonesia.

Unless someone is good at coding or something they can’t easily immigrate to US or Canada or used to be Europe.

So the price of blue collar workers and menial workers in US is inflated.

To be blunt. US don’t have that much wealth disparity.

In Indonesia wage gap between a crypto entrepreneur and a maid is huge.

In US, not so much. Black people in US AREN’T poor. Not by global standard. Most of them earn more than typical Indonesians. Sure they are relatively poorer than whites or jews or asians. But they’re not poor. American system while far from pure capitalism produce lots of billionaires and raise up all boats.

I am actually confused when I see video of American thieves have cars. In my country thieves rarely have cars.

So?

So US can’t compete in manufacturing or in any jobs that require menial workers.

That is why manufacturing jobs move to China.

And I used to like it. The idea is when jobs move to China, US realized that communism sucks and eliminate minimum wage and find some ways to lower wage of low IQ menial workers.

Again. We live in society. That’s not happening. Not now anyway. Also too much wealth and income disparity means people would steal or worse, vote communism.

And this is precisely what’s happening in US. People vote communism or do riots. That’s because the poor live near the rich and the rich are well within their rioting and striking range.

And that leads to another issue. Does 2 wrong makes things right?

I mean, US already have effective tariffs for workers. Would tariffs on manufacturing balance things out?

With better technology and so on, and tariffs, US can get manufacturing back.

Do I like it? Fishy. To me, if a country is rich like US, but small like Singapore, to hell with manufacturing. Just pay low IQ citizens to fuck off somewhere else or turn them into shareholders and hire low pay immigrants.

But it seems that under democracy income gap can’t be too high or less people vote for communism or democrat or dei or feminism or other nonsense.

So Trump idea of tariffs, especially when it’s replacing income tax, is not bad.

Basically, US can be thought of as enterprise that want to increase prosperity of the citizens. Globalization without tariffs put certain imbalance. Tariffs put the balance back.

I still don’t like it. But it’ll be interesting.

There is a way to make a country that is minarchist and yet open border. How? Make living costs on that country more expensive than living cost in other countries. Then only economically productive people come. One way to do so is tariffs.

Like you can be libertarian but you can’t be all out libertarian. You can’t have no tariffs, no tax and then open border. Then the mafia will just beat up polices and rule.