[Cringing Negativism Network]

Have you shopped for ANYTHING recently?

We don’t make things anymore.

Go out and look. No tools. No electronics. No computers.

Nothing. We only buy. That will stop soon enough, because we’ll run out of money.

[SampleMan]

As I said and provided documentation for, we export about 70% of what we import in value, so a blanket tariff would kill our most vibrant industries.

As for the problem of importing more than we export, the primary problem is not that foreign goods are too cheap, the primary problem is that domestic taxes and regulation are too oppressive. Tariffs do nothing to solve that.