[central_va]

As a small business owner, tariffs hurt me more than sales and income taxes combined.

You are a socialist, comrade.

[Mr. Jeeves]

Sales and income taxes hurt corporate employees far more than business owners. But there are fewer and fewer of those "working families" left for government to rob.

Raising tariffs isn't by itself going to produce any magical resurgence in US manufacturing - it's just going to kill off a huge number of import-dependent small- and medium-sized businesses in exchange for the minimal benefit of giving statists a little more money to spend on social welfare schemes - for a year or two.

The correct answer is an 80% reduction in the size of the Federal Government and the sunsetting of 80% of all Federal laws on the books. This should be the opposition party's #1 agenda...if we had an opposition party.