[Arrian]

Tariffs are hardly a palliative as they are a tax, therefore a cost borne by the producer, wherever the point of origin of the goods. As such, they are a weapon that distorts trade flows and a favored weapon of political assholes devoid of free market economics such as the GOP; which used them to fund the entire government from 1865 till the imposition of the income tax in 1913. History has detailed the corrosive impact of Tariffs on the Great Depression.

[VRWCmember]

Tariffs are hardly a palliative as they are a tax, therefore a cost borne by the producer, wherever the point of origin of the goods.

Nope, they are a cost borne by the importer and ultimately the consumer.

[central_va]

Ahh, the first tariff act was passed in 1789.