@peacefulpete: unrest near oil producing places - if you drill domestically, that is much less of a problem - if you don’t start wars that is much less of a problem. Both things is something the US president has a hand in as evidenced by NO NEW WARS under Trump and at least 3 new major ones by the current resident dementia patient.
As far as tariffs is concerned, for the first 200 years of US existence there were no income taxes, it was tariffs that drove investment in domestic production and the Industrial Revolution which made the US from a British backwater into the most powerful nation on earth. After WW1 and WW2, when people like FDR made income taxes permanent production started to be exported, Japan and Europe in the 1950s and China and other Asians countries in the 1970s which under the Marshal plan both Japan and Europe held 100% tariffs while the US was required to have 0% in order to … wait for it … rebuild their economy and increase their domestic production. Hence why you see their economies booming after WW2 besides the fact they didn’t have to invest in their own defense spending.
This doctrine led to the downfall of US production and industry, increases in taxes year over year which was only stopped by … wait for it … Trump, who was the first president post-WW2 to use tariffs and threaten to withdraw US military support to Europe so they would for the first time in history at least partially live up to NATO promises and significantly (by 14%) reduced income taxes for Americans in the lower and middle classes.