[PugetSoundSoldier]

OK, thank you. So your position is to use tariffs as a means of managing the economy by protecting US firms that you feel need.

Fundamentally, free trade is not your position, managed trade is. Is that correct?

[Mojave]

So your position is to use tariffs as a means of managing the economy by protecting US firms that you feel need.

Nope. My position is that Ronald Reagan selectively used tariffs as a means of managing foreign trade by protecting those sectors of the economy where he had determined such protections best served our nation's economic interests.

Unlike "free trade" absolutists, he wasn't bound to simplistic sloganeering as a substitute for intelligent policy development.

[calcowgirl]

So your position is to use tariffs as a means of managing the economy by protecting US firms that you feel need.

FYI -- This would be yet another example of you mistating others' opinions.