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I am tired of posts like yours..would you want to live in China? It makes your comments juvenile.
a Little fact: ave tariffs across the world over 20% cost of goods..ave tariff for US markets 1.6%- the data is in gov on line sites..I have posted these links before, but I assume someone so smug and sure of their Free Trade views would have known these numbers which put a lie to all you harp on.

Until you prove to me that I or most of the folks of my generation are worse off than we would have been if we had a "protected" economy like the Euro-peons, then you aren't going to get much respect from me, if that really matters.

America is a consumer-centric economy. We love our goods cheap. If we wish, we have the choice to buy higher quality goods, many made here in the USA. Why should I support a tariff that will do nothing but subsidize some incompetant who couldn't run his business efficiently enough?

McDonnell Douglas and Grumman were heavily subsidized and protected by Uncle Sugar for years, yet they wound up disappearing anyway. Boeing adjusted to the realities of the contemporary market, and they are the largest U.S. exporter in terms of dollar value.

But hey, maybe we can be like your heroes in Europe and China who guarantee that "everyone has a job" and that "all should work for the greater good of the nation/entity."