Might help to start with the underlying core economic issues.
Federally protected unions, high taxes, regulations, minimum wage, subsidies, and a weak dollar all have converged to “bind and gag” American business and drive industry from our shores. Kill these mostly unconstitutional and boneheaded acts and policies and you’ve gone a long way to fixing the problem. Trump has directly addressed some of these problems. ALL need to be abolished.
Tariffs are a palliative, not curative, measure. They make people feel good as though something is really being done to help our economy. But tariffs absolutely fail to address the ROOT causes of our economic woes and why businesses have fled the U.S. THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT, not the EU, China, or the Man in the Moon, is the MAIN reason for our failure to compete in the marketplace.
Might I just add here:
Tariffs were the main source of all Federal revenue from 1790 to 1914.
Ah, the 1910’s — that period when progressive sunk their claws into America — John Dewey, the Fed, Woodrow Wilson, income tax, 19A...the hardcore beginning of the end.
Imagine if, instead, we had followed the U. S. Constitution to its logical extremes...