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$1,200 is only part of the cost. Farmers lost 44 billion dollars and got 12 billion back from the biggest loser. They've lost their markets so prices will plunge and farmers will lose their farms. So much winning. His lies are the not really the best but the farmers' lack of intelligence is mind blowing.
And even if the tariffs were revoked today, prices are effectively permanently higher. There is no mechanism to lower prices in the way tariffs have raised them.
Subsidies.
Subsidies are coarse and indirect, and unfortunately unless you build in explicit price controls (and would either party even consider that?) the market will not stop charging prices that now people have demonstrated they will pay.
At best they will slightly lower prices but nowhere near as reliable as tariffs raised them, and also inefficiently divide that benefit of the subsidy with the business that will skim extra profit now at the expense of taxpayers. I.e., a citizen still paying more for less.
You have sales, which is an easy way to do that. And discounts can be basically permanent.
Yes, there are technically ways to lower prices. The impossibility is due to the complete lack of incentive for corporations to do so. So, it won’t be happening.