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At car manufacturers + dealerships, as they're more expensive to make, more expensive to buy, and harder to sell? Home appliances? Construction? Manufacturing? Food and food service? Electronics?
And then we get to the retaliatory tariffs, that will make it harder to sell US goods overseas (making the trade deficit even worse, BTW). Even our closest allies (the EU specifically), have already started planning those out.
If you save 1,000 jobs, and in the process you destroy 20,000 other jobs, that is not good news for the American worker.
As to the grocery store analogy, that was just to explain that the trade deficit is not the issue, it's a way to obfuscate the issue and pretend you're being more quantitative than you actually are. If your concern is jobs, just say your concern is jobs. Then we can be concerned about the same thing. But tariffs do not save jobs. If your concern is US steel jobs, specifically, then yes, tariffs will help with that, and a lot of other Americans will pay the price.
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