The worker who still has a job might be better off... As an IT professional
I watched many jobs be outsourced to India and some to Russia in the past 20 years. That didn't help the US IT workers. I saw the same thing with engineering in industry. GM liked sending engineering jobs to Mexico where an engineer cost 20 percent of what they did in the US. Then the Mexican engineers saw that if they could come to the US they could make many times what they make in Mexico. Meanwhile the un or under employed IT workers and engineers are not going to buy the ever increasingly expensive cars.

If corporations paid zero tax would that not be good. If they paid 100 percent taxes why would they bother being in business. The goal of business is to make money and build shareholder equity. As a business man I think Trump understands this much better than the average lawyer in congress. The debate comes down to what are the best mechanisms to get the desired results. This is where those who dislike tariffs don't want tariffs. Consumers/spenders pay for everything a successful business does other than growth investments, equity, that the business owns. Same as taxpayers pay for everything the government has or does outside of the money it borrows in our name.

What a Trump is really trying to do is level and create a fair marketplace. Some will say he is in fact distorting the free marketplace. But let's say that every other country can produce better steel for less money than the US. Would we be smart to not make any steel here and depend only on others? Some would argue yes, we should focus on other things. I would argue no because steel is important as a part of our country's defense readiness.

Bottom line is these are very complex issues and there are no easy answers. But China especially has been ripping us off for years thanks to the g*******t and our own leaders.

I'm not criticizing your post, because you brought of a number of good points, but I want to make a comment about losing jobs to other countries.

There is a big misconception that the U.S. is losing jobs. This is not actually the case. Jobs are changing at a rapid pace and it gives the impression that we are losing them because when workers lose their jobs, it makes big headlines. What does not make the headlines are all the new jobs that open up in their place.

A little known fact is that for some five or six years we have had a record number of unfilled jobs, about 5 or 6 million. Employers cannot find enough people to show up for work. This is due squarely on the fact that there are so many people on welfare who don't care to go out and work. We are at a low point of the percentage of people working, but at a high point for people on welfare. One out of three Americans is getting some sort of welfare at the moment. This is abominable, though it has been getting better recently.

I agree the consumer pays all. But is it not a smoke & mirrors way of hoodwinking the sheep into thinking he's doing the consumer a good turn?
Even if he cuts company tax but puts Tarif on the imports, the consumer is no better off, & neither is the nation. The local product is no cheaper, they pay tax, with discount, a little less, but more than covered by Tarif, giving govt a bonanza.
If the Tarif was removed & tax break made it price competitive, making it more buyer friendly, the govt gets less. So who is he fooling?? The consumer to pay more tax.
Just a Pea & Thimble way to achieve what? The consumer gets it in the neck always.
Like the Mexicans paying for the wall. Yeah?? You the tax payers pay for it???

In your mind the national/world economies are essentially static ... which is a myth.

When country A tariffs an item at 5% and country B tariffs it at 25%, country B will flourish and country A will suffer.

This is what has happened to the USA, its economy and its workforce.

What Trump has actually presented is a tariff free trade agreement with several nations, but steadfastly refusing to allow imbalanced tariffs to continue.

Does the end buyer pay for the tariffs? Of course they do, and I'm glad to see my l*****t friends finally accepting that taxes are not paid by the corporations. Its paid by the end purchaser.

How does the economy benefit from tariffs? It tilts the playing field back to level and the economy benefits because more of the product becomes available from domestic suppliers and the foreign trade deficit recedes because less is imported.

In a tariff free economy the most efficient country will thrive and the least efficient will suffer.

I'm not criticizing your post, because you brought of a number of good points, but I want to make a comment about losing jobs to other countries.

There is a big misconception that the U.S. is losing jobs. This is not actually the case. Jobs are changing at a rapid pace and it gives the impression that we are losing them because when workers lose their jobs, it makes big headlines. What does not make the headlines are all the new jobs that open up in their place.

A little known fact is that for some five or six years we have had a record number of unfilled jobs, about 5 or 6 million. Employers cannot find enough people to show up for work. This is due squarely on the fact that there are so many people on welfare who don't care to go out and work. We are at a low point of the percentage of people working, but at a high point for people on welfare. One out of three Americans is getting some sort of welfare at the moment. This is abominable, though it has been getting better recently.

In your mind the national/world economies are essentially static ... which is a myth.

When country A tariffs an item at 5% and country B tariffs it at 25%, country B will flourish and country A will suffer.

This is what has happened to the USA, its economy and its workforce.

What Trump has actually presented is a tariff free trade agreement with several nations, but steadfastly refusing to allow imbalanced tariffs to continue.

Does the end buyer pay for the tariffs? Of course they do, and I'm glad to see my l*****t friends finally accepting that taxes are not paid by the corporations. Its paid by the end purchaser.

How does the economy benefit from tariffs? It tilts the playing field back to level and the economy benefits because more of the product becomes available from domestic suppliers and the foreign trade deficit recedes because less is imported.

In a tariff free economy the most efficient country will thrive and the least efficient will suffer.