“We need import tariffs,”
All that import tariffs do is to try to remove any competition to bloated, unionized, over regulated, domestic industry.
We MUST begin to COMPETE with imports. Why should I support a company who insists on putting its corporate headquarters in the most expensive cost-of-living cities in the country? Why subsidize union non-work rules? Why subsidize states which continue to elect representatives who either support the EPA/OSHA/CPSC/EEOC/ADA bureaucratic impediment machine or are too spineless to trim these agencies & regulations back to something reasonable & sensible.
Also, the money collected in import tariffs go to feed the government beast that got us into this mess in the first place.
Before you call for import tariffs, why not start a “Buy Red State, Non-Union Only” movement? (yeah, I know, that message on a bumper sticker will get your car ‘keyed’ or your tires slashed by those tolerant liberals)
Kudos for an excellent, well-argued post.