I found a way to get around tariffs that will raise the price of audio equipment.

2psyop, hear hear. I would guess that plenty of Germans who were concerned about where their country was going in 1939 were also labeled "chicken littles" or whatever the equivalent of "seagull squad" (such a cute name!) was. Half of the country has been led to believe in exceptionalism and the concept of the rugged individual (the "self-made man" myth). 

I'm very glad I purchased a car last month, and I will be engaging in what the OP proposes, no purchases unless absolutely necessary, and in those potential scenarios, used.

@61falcon +1

on Chinese electric cars, yes.  they went hand-in-hand with subsidies for the production of EVs, semiconductors, and other technologies designed to stimulate U.S. growth (which Biden's successor denounced).

You left that part out.

Just think what advances green energy would make if it were subsidized at the same level as fossil fuel.