• Revonult@lemmy.world
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    4 hours ago

    The problem is that it makes everything more expensive. With the alternatives costing 30% more all the domestic just raise their prices by 30% to match. Of course that gives some wiggle room for domestic to be like maybe 1% lower but basically everything shoots up because capitalism and extracting as much value as possible.

    Like when the steel and aluminum tarrifs went into effect the domestic prices jumped up with it.