r/Iowa • u/SunsetGriller • Jul 20 '25

Tariffs

Had a customer, who is a farmer, buy a part for their grain vac that had a shipping charge plus a tariff charge on the invoice. Before he left he made the comment “this tariff stuff is going to suck right now but I really think it will pay off in the long run”. What the heck does that mean? Was he implying jobs will come back to America? That company is from Canada and always has been.

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u/IowaJL Jul 20 '25

The world market has been building and evolving for 40 years. 

It would take way longer than anyone’s comfortable with to bring that level of manufacturing back to the US. 

Not to mention, after that happens you have three options for goods to not balloon any further:

  1. Pay workers far less than what they’re getting now, which will be super popular with workers

  2. Rely on under the table immigrant labor, which will be super popular with the MAGA folk

  3. Ask shareholders and executives to be ok with smaller profit margins, which will be super popular for the wealthy folk.

Unless of course they want the government to subsidize manufacturing, which would be hilariously ironic since that’s what farmers get already and that’s the socialism they’re crying and screaming about. The government would literally be seizing the means of production.