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Manufacturing output may have increased along the curve of a plateau, but it is still much lower than what it would be in an unregulated environment.

https://www.mercatus.org/publication/cumulative-cost-regulat...

Why do you say they are aimed in the wrong direction? They are reciprocal and only in industrial sectors where China already has tariffs on our goods up to 10x larger than our rates.

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"it is still much lower than what it would be in an unregulated environment."

Counterfactual. The article you link to is laughable on the face of it. "A new study for the Mercatus Center at George Mason University" carries about the same intellectual heft as "A new study for the Eat More Beef Center at Hamburger University."

You seem the sort of person able to recognize others' ideologies while incorrectly assuming your own beliefs are rational and well-founded. Are you generally tolerant of or convinced by counterfactuals when they don't support your ideology?

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