105: PREVIEW Call to Abolish Tariffs and Reform H-1B Visas to Revive U.S. Manufacturing. Dave Hebert, writing for the Civotas Institute, outlines steps necessary to return America to being a manufacturing giant and productive inventor of the future. He argues

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🗓️ 19 November 2025

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PREVIEW Call to Abolish Tariffs and Reform H-1B Visas to Revive U.S. Manufacturing. Dave Hebert, writing for the Civotas Institute, outlines steps necessary to return America to being a manufacturing giant and productive inventor of the future. He argues for making it easier for productive American workers by abolishing tariffs on imported raw materials and components. He also stresses the need to reform the H-1B visa system to attract highly skilled, competent, and educated people to the country to ultimately lift the nation's productivity. Guest: Dave Hebert.
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0:00.0	Dave Hebert, writing at the Civitas Institute, about tariffs,
0:07.4	has a stirring summary of what needs to be done in order to return to America to the manufacturing giant.
0:15.0	It has been.
0:16.5	And in order to keep America creating and being productive and inventing the future,
0:22.3	is Dave stirringly what needs to be done.
0:26.7	He's a young man.
0:27.6	He'll see it in his lifetime.
0:30.8	Much more tonight.
0:33.1	Sure.
0:33.7	So the easiest paths forward here would be to stop making it more difficult to get things into the hands of the most productive people on the planet.
0:43.2	Those people are the American workers. We need to abolish these tariffs, return to what we had before, letting countries export raw materials and components into America so that we can transform them
0:56.7	into the amazing products that only Americans can make.
1:00.6	The second is reform the H-1B visa.
1:03.3	Make it easier for highly skilled, highly competent, and highly educated people to come into
1:08.8	this country and lift all boats around as we continue as a nation
1:13.5	to build the future that the rest of the world
1:16.3	is going to be following and trying to emulate going forward.

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