I fully understand the issue of tariffs....I fully see what the beautiful nations of the Caribbean have done to their citizens with obscene tariffs....I fully comprehend the views of John Stossel, Walter Williams, Ronald Reagan, Milton Friedman, Thomas Sowell on tariffs.
I fully understand that nations don’t do trade with one another, individuals do. I fully understand that there’s no such thing as “an American job” per se - only jobs that individuals create inside America, or out.
I fully understand how the shallow mind thinks tariffs work. They don’t realize that to protect a few hundred or few thousand workers, we penalize 300 million consumers and reduce their liberty. I realize that tariffs favor certain jobs over others.
And I fully understand that if we got rid of our liberalism, our jobs would absolutely explode. It wouldn’t make any difference what China did or did not do at that point.
I think you might not understand any of that.