I mean, have the day you voted for.

Have the day you voted for!

By far the greatest flaw of this thinking is that there is an exception for the things they want.

This doesn’t feel like a genuine question, because it’s an open secret that a majority of american restaurants, farms, and construction outfits run on migrant labor at below minimum wage. I personally work in construction in Oregon, and I’m well aware of this, even hundreds of miles from a boarder.

Aeroman.

Projects will have a budget that will have an expected return on investment (ROI) over a fixed period of time for private sector. Public projects raise a bond, and you can’t exceed the bond.

Raise steel 10-25% and you can blow past the budget window, because steel construction parts go up to match. Create uncertainty about the future market, and your ROI calculation is toast.

It frustrates me when people say “well just buy american steel,” as if people were not already buying american steel as well as foreign. Now there’s not enough steel so prices go up. There’s no strategic pile of steel reserve. If a store normally sells 100 apples a day and suddenly there are 76, would you say “just buy american apples” when the price went up and there were shortages?

Hey, I do some electrical stuff. I would strongly suspect steel is the reason this isn’t economic, because I’m hearing copper is actually going down.

Boomers gonna love how this turns out.