I respect yours as well and your points are solid; we got to this due to past administrations letting China bend us over and turn a blind eye to it, no doubt recently a certain someone was in their back pocket/getting funds shuffled around to off shore accounts or "family members" for services rendered.
My issue is this 104% tariff.........oh sorry, 125% tariff...........tell you what, just flip all the cards and go right to 1000% already................is absurd, prices for just about everything we've grown dependent on due to corporate greed "Let's move production out of the US and pay peanuts for slave labor to make it and still charge the same price, we'll make a fortune!!" will skyrocket and even IF a deal is worked out, they will not come down.
Think back to when gas was 6.00 a gallon and prices skyrocketed due to increased costs to get those goods to market/the carriers like UPs/FED EX/DHL jacked up their rates due to high fuel costs..................and guess what, when the cost of fuel leveled off, the prices stayed high/the carriers kept jamming me and everyone else who brings goods in from overseas/the retailers and grocery stores did not cut costs.
This has gone well passed absurd, it's on another level now.