That attitude illustrates a failure to understand the nature of the problem. Generally speaking it is necessary to thoroughly understand the cause of a problem before a solution is possible.
Some people believe the current imbalance of trade is the result of people in other countries being "happier" with lower pay than people in the United States.
Understanding the various levels of pay requires a more thorough examination and analysis of numerous social variables. It is necessary to get the ration of the lowest wages to the highest in each country. That ration in, for example, communist countries can be very low, perhaps as low as 1:10, whereas in the United States it is extremely high, perhaps 1:750, depending on definition and categorization techniques.
The result can be that despite their real income levels people in communist countries can perceive themselves to be doing far better than people in the United States. They can also have far less concern about unemployment and health care. The quality of health care might be in question, but fair access to it is not.
Therefore it would be inaccurate to believe that the imbalance of trade is caused by people in other countries being happier with lower wages, They actually have a higher station in life comparatively speaking.
It is worse than that. The dramatic lowest/highest wage ratio in the United States can have a strong upward pressure on wages and prices. It can cause an upward spiral where wages chase higher prices that then chase higher wages and so on. Because other countries do not have the same inflation pressure their prices appear lower and lower. Inflation is the cause of the imbalance of trade.
Perhaps sellers are using what they believe are "free market" principles to set prices higher than appear stable. That could be because free market mathematics are simple and often exclude complicating social factors. So called "externalities" are examples of social conditions that make adjustments to the basic free market principles necessary. It is not the purpose here to establish blame for the upward spiral of wages and prices, whether rich or poor. It is only to say that the lowest/highest wage ratio is extreme, and an upward pressure exists. Jobs then go to other countries whose currency is less inflated.
The reason further inflation caused by tariffs will not likely solve the problem is that tariffs do absolutely nothing to address the social differences that result in the problem in the first place.
A common misunderstanding of mass production techniques is that any increase in the number of items sold can mean a decrease in the price. That is absolutely not true. In fact there is a limit below which the price cannot go no matter how many items are sold. Suppose a manufacturing process requires a saw. A new saw blade costs $70 and will make 1,000 items before it will be necessary to buy a new saw blade.
Selling only 10 items means the saw blade adds $7 to the price of each item. Selling 100 items means the saw blade adds $0.70 to the price of each item. Selling 1,000 items means adding only $0.07 to the price of each item. It is very important to understand that the price cannot go any lower no matter how many items are sold. Once the initial capital investment is used up, more investment is required. In selling 1,010 items the cost of saw blades adds almost $0.14 to the cost of each of the 1010 items.
These are of course arbitrary numbers made up to illustrate a point. The point remains established though that there is a lower limit below which a price cannot go no matter how many items are sold.
Some people might believe that denying sales to other countries by imposing prohibitive tariffs will increase sales in the United States and thus by "mass production" techniques reduce prices here. The reason prices will not likely go lower is that sales at any national level are already numerous enough that increasing sales cannot lower the price any further by mass production techniques. This is especially true for modern managers who have more talent for matching a specific capital investment to a specific manufacturing quota.
We need a new word. It is not enough to say the Trump base "got a C- on an economics paper." We need a word like "retarded," or "stupid," or "idiotic" to describe them. They should be discouraged from voting. Trying to explain to them that they are so stupid is not working. We can only hope that as they mess up the country so bad it finally dawns on them that they are the ones ruining everything.
It is not like the Democrats are any smarter. How do we know? They lost the election. Think about that a moment in the context of this article. Some of them, really not many, really far fewer than Republicans would have you believe, cannot distinguish fantasy from reality. Most of them can keep their fantasies within reasonable bounds, but some of them expect people they do not know to accept fantasies as "reality."
Quite many Christians have few apparent requirements for being a Christian. To them anyone who claims to be a Christian is one, regardless of obvious circumstances. So it might happen from time to time that people who claim to be Christian have failed critical studies. It might even happen that those who believe Donald Trump is a good president call themselves Christians. One way to tell who is and is not speaking in the Holy Spirit is whether what they say is obviously false. Scriptures can be vague but Numbers 23:19 says, "God is not a man, that he should lie; neither the son of man, that he should repent: hath he said, and shall he not do it? or hath he spoken, and shall he not make it good?”
Anything can happen. The sky might split open and Jesus rides down on a winged white horse. Far more likely though is that Trump's promises bear little or no fruit, or even make matters worse. Border crossings appeared to increase during the Biden administration. Obviously Trump's "wall" was not effective in that case. This article describes what is likely to happen with tariffs.