The American people are not afraid of fighting the trade war we are up to our necks in. Any temporary inflation that a tariff will cause would be an inconvenience on the road to self sufficiency and prosperity. We need to take the off ramp on the highway to socialism that the globalists are happily leading us down. Like I said of course there will be some, perhaps as high 30% inflation for durable goods. But this is a one time adjustment. I would prefer to go slow on tariff duties and gradually increase them over time but even the Draconian instant 30% is OK with me.
But there really is no alternative at this point. The wage inflation of the 1970's will not,cannot, happen. It is obvious that the American worker in 2017 has no leverage in this regard at all. A tariff will cause commodity inflation with domestic re industrialization and increased supply steadily picking away at it and moving it in the other direction.