So, the Federal Government saying "If you buy a car from Company X, you pay no tax, but if you buy a car from Company Y, you pay a 35% tax" is conservative?? I'm gonna go with no.
Up is down. Black is white. Cats and dogs are living together. Taxes are conservative.
The tax is not mandatory, buy the domestic or don't buy at all.
Tariffs raised revenue and protected US industries until 1913. The US did quite well and was much more conservative then. So you are the one that is confused.
I think it comes down to reality vs ideas. The idea of free trade is good - the implementation has been criminal. It’s not free trade when our government regulates businesses to death and makes employees so expensive that their products can’t compete with other nations that have cheap labor and little to no regulation.
Is it free trade when a corporation moves it’s production overseas cutting 1000’s of U.S. jobs and creating 1000’s of jobs in another nation simply to improve stock dividends? If you own the stock it’s good I suppose. If you live in the community that is gutted by the loss of jobs it sucks.
I am for free trade when it’s done on a fair and level playing field. We don’t have that now and we struggle to be competitive in many areas because of the hidden costs and taxation that Mexican companies don’t have. Until then, we will continue to gut our manufacturing base - no thanks.