We need import tariffs.
Otherwise the world will simply take everything American.
All of it. And we’ll be finished.
No other nation is practicing true free trade. Only us.
That’s otherwise known as unilateral surrender.
>> We need import tariffs.
That only masks the problem by jacking the cost of goods, and feeding payroll welfare. The idea of fair trade is preferred to raising the price of imports. Import tariffs only creates short-lived, artificial competition.
Bureaucracy, regulations, and unions are primarily responsible for the woebegone manufacturing in America.
FWIW, I fully support unions in the private sector, but unfortunately, they end being their own worst enemies. If it were not for the competition of Japanese imports, we’d still be manufacturing ATF burning rust buckets.