I'd rather buy bootlegs. Or smuggled items.
They keep going this way and smuggling is gonna become a valid career again.
this post was submitted on 28 Sep 2025
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I understand the goal here, but why the hell would an overseas investor or nation, or even a domestic investor, build a chip plant in America?
Say you're mulling the idea, but you have a few problems. Trump's tariffs are going to tank the economy, and already are in some places. SEE: Nebraska. Any objective observer can see that Trump has a degenerative neurological condition, and almost certainly other serious health issues. So whether he dies, loses hard in the midterms or trashes the economy first, the tariffs will be repealed.
Want to be the one left holding the bag on you're shiny new chip plant? Constructing one in the United States is an objectively bad idea. I know jack about economics, and I ain't too bright to begin with, but even I can see this as a no go.
The tariffs might not be the best way to go about it, but is anyone denying that chip manufacturing is an increasingly important factor in geopolitical power? Why would whoever replaces Trump just let those businesses die?
Like taxing houses based on the number of windows
was designed to impose tax relative to the prosperity of the taxpayer, but without the controversy that then surrounded the idea of income tax.
So nothing has changed in 400 years. Cool, cool cool cool.
One thing that changed is increased powers of state surveillance and record keeping. Taxes used to be a much blunter tool because of limits on reliable and organized information.
Or this is incentive to simplify the devices sent to the US with the complex calculations taking place out of country. Fewer imported chips, more monthly subscriptions.
This nightmare determination and implementation of tariff policies is why I bought the best phone I could afford last year. This shit is gonna have to last at least 6 years for me.
Good incentive to develop chipless technology (only sorta /s)