It is vital for our National Defense that we have a healthy Steel and Aluminum industry. It is not an option to allow these industries to whither as other countries dump their steel and aluminum. We are already in a trade war and must respond. We have less to lose than “them”.
Yeah...not selling out control of your country’s markets and best interests is shooting yourself in the foot! Sad thing is most people believe this crap!
We have a healthy steel and aluminum industry, 82 million tons of steel and somewhat less aluminum produced last year.
This is an important point. Economists don't like this argument because they can't put a price tag on national security. It really fowls up their economic models. But a secure super power needs certain industries to be in place with people capable of running them and ramping them up should the need arise.
Speaking to your point, part of the tariff ‘argument’ should include a prediction as to the state of our economy, industry, and national security if we do nothing and allow business as usual to proceed.
You nailed it. And there is no such thing as “free trade” with communist, slave, socialist cultures. NONE. Trade with evil countries promotes only evil. Capitalism has to be done by moral people—for without virtue, there can be no freedom. Evil capitalists/monopolists are destroying freedom and virtue which used to be embedded in our curricula but the communist John Dewey destroyed our “educational” system for a Marxist, brainwashing, “group-non-think” one. Virtue is being destroyed in our children intentionally with Lukacs type explicit “sex ed” and promotion of perversions to very young children. Get your children out of public skools.
We need tariffs to protect our vital industries that have been decimated by evil, communist and socialist countries dumping their polluted, subsidized products, so they can kill our industries here, which will evolve into our slavery, and the “NWO” where all Christians are silenced or killed—no free will, no natural rights from God-—no private property rights.
We are flooded with polluted, plastic crap-—making the masses so happy for cheap cr*p and meaningless lives-—just materialists, who spend time with cr*p literally, instead of with family and friends and educating themselves (true purpose of leisure).
It is EASY to take the cheap, toxic road....always, but it will result in complete slavery (vice). A true Justice system only promotes virtue-—so trading with evil, socialist/communist people would be unconstitutional anyhow.