Andrew Heaton
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I don't want the government punishing other people for making economic choices.
Because you're taxing me for buying a cheaper skateboard.
Yeah, I don't think you should do that.
And I'd like to back up a little bit.
I question this whole idea that it's a lack of tariffs and protectionism that's resulted in lack of American manufacturing.
Oh, you're wrong.
So like you look at like no one does this with farmers.
Like if you go back to like 1880, 90 percent of the American workforce was farmers.
Like it's not because we started importing food that we do.
It's because we got really, really good at making food.
So my uncle's a farmer.
He's basically like an agronomist.
Let's go macro.
Let's go macro.
Tell me about Detroit.
Detroit with with manufacturing, I'd say has more to do with unions and with just the cost of manufacturing cars in general.
So let's kind of stick with that for a minute.
Like steel, for example.
Steel is one of the things Trump talks about regularly.