“After 30 years of giving the rest of the world a chance to “play fair”, and they haven’t, do you really thing we can live in a world without tariffs?”
Maybe. Tariffs may cause some domestic issue that business scream to congress to correct. If they find they cannot import and domestic production is hampered by taxes and regulations, maybe, just maybe, they’ll use their clout to change those taxes and regs instead of using it to allow unfettered imports as they have.
We need to change our taxes and regs. Tariffs, alone, will not do the trick. We need tariffs right now to cause the changes needed and get Americans back to work.
A serious consequence of Americans not working has been the knowledge needed to work. Colleges teach very little these days, high schools are a joke, and we as a nation have lost that can-do spirit. We’ll get it back quickly, but the catalyst will be tariffs causing domestic production demand.
The last thing we need is a weak dollar and more imports as these anti-Americans on FR keep advocating.
A weak dollar would make imports less competitive and our exports more competitive. I didn't see any anti-Americans advocating for that, did you?
The last thing we need is a weak dollar and more imports...
To me it’s the opposite. A STRONG DOLLAR buys more goods from other countries.
A WEAK DOLLAR makes American products cheaper in other countries.