[semimojo]

Also, thise workers are not idled, meaning they aren’t out collecting unemployment or committing crimes to stay afloat.

Fine. But if the government is going to redistribute wealth to take care of those who don't have jobs let's do it more transparently by taxing everyone and allocating the money around openly.

These tariffs are a more complicated means to the same end and they have the effect of distorting the market and favoring certain industries over others.

They're a tax on consumers and the tax receipts go to a certain class of workers through artificially high wages.

[ConservativeMind]

Tariffs are a voluntary tax to pay for a consumer. Additionally, buying a tariffed good assures that consumer, regardless of work status, pays it.

It is equivalent to a national sales tax on only those goods.

What’s not to like a out that? It is a completely legal, demand-based tax that hits foreign good buyers on welfare, earning money “off the table,” and from gainfully-employed persons.

[ConservativeMind]

Those “artificially high” wages are paying US Income tax.

Chinese workers don’t.