Heh, no problem. Mojave and a lot of the anti-capitalist protectionists like to run circles to try to confuse you...
Essentially, Mojave is trying to bluster that Reagan used tariffs to increase protection of the US as a whole. That number he keeps bandying about relates to the total number of tariffs applied but NOT the amount of tariff funds collected!
Toddsterpatriot asked Mojave for the average tariff applied; the typical tariff tax rate.
Mojave - not knowing the answer, and apparently too insecure to state as much - answered a different question. He answered about the number of tariffs in effect. An entirely DIFFERENT question, and one that doesn’t bear any application to the question at hand.
Classic spin - when asked a question that you either do not know the answer for, or that such answer will destroy your position, you substitute an answer for a seemingly similar question that altogether is irrelevant.
It would be like me asking did you like your bacon and eggs at breakfast, and you reply “when I sat down and smelled the bacon and drank the juice, and had the pancakes it was great”.
Your answer did not address my question, and in fact says NOTHING about the bacon and eggs! But it sounds “close enough” that you can hope I will infer/conclude you actually did enjoy the bacon and eggs.
So now Reagan is an "anti-capitalist" protectionist?
As surely as a dog returns to its vomit, there you go....
You know, you are looking like a real ass -- posting lie after lie and misrepresenting not only what was aked, but what was answered.
If you want to be taken at all seriously, why don't you clean up your act?
I did actually learn something on this thread, despite your arrogance. You could use a bit of intellectual honesty in your attempts to convince people. As it is, I wouldn't trust you to walk my dog.