[reaganaut1]

I don’t agree with you about trade, but I don’t call you a “traitor” for supporting tariffs. Tariffs are a tax on consumers.

[central_va]

How can that old man get on TV and tell us we do not have it in us to cut our deficits. He basically said the USA is f-ed. Well a tariff balances the budget. And not a very big one either.

So if the economic situation is that bad and dire then why not?

Old people are afraid of a little inflation even if it save the country economically. They want their cheapo crap until they croak. Even though the stuff we import is only cheap quality and not price. Even if the country falls off the economic cliff they will hold the Free Traitor™ line. The word traitor fits like a glove.

[eyeamok]

Under protectionist policies from 1865 to 1900, U.S. debt was cut by two-thirds. Customs duties provided 58 percent of revenue. Save for President Cleveland’s 2 percent tax, which was declared unconstitutional, there was no income tax. Commodity prices fell 58 percent. Real wages, despite a doubling of the population, rose 53 percent. Growth in GDP averaged over 4 percent a year. Industrial production rose almost 5 percent a year.
Read more at http://www.wnd.com/2016/05/whos-the-conservative-heretic-mr-speaker/#SJBKbp7soTHLYgHe.99

[ChuteTheMall]

“Tariffs are a tax on consumers.”
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So?
ALL taxes are taxes upon consumers;

some also punish or reward selected entities along the way.