If you make $600 component + $200 laptop ($800) from outside the US cost say $8k through a 1000% tariff, you could assemble in the US for $1,000, buy the components for $6000, and sell for $7k.
That's what the american people seem to want to happen.
That's what the american people seem to want to happen.
I'm American, and 50.2% of Americans did not vote for this.
Realistically, it will not be that bad. Most companies will just up prices to make up the cost of the tariff and consumers will eat it.
In all fairness, a good portion of the other 49.8% probably didn't vote for this (or didn't know they were voting for it) either.
That's WORSE than if you were just stupid or hateful. You chose to be willfully ignorant of something that was utterly trivial to check.
They voted for it.