[Oceander]

You'd be in for a big surprise only if you didn't think for yourself. Tariffs have never worked to do anything other than impoverish ordinary working Americans and enrich the parasites who have managed to co-opt the machinery of the government (i.e., the liberals at this stage of the game):

[Soul of the South]

During the second half of the 19th century the tariff funded the federal government and protected American industry from European competition. Our nation became the greatest industrial power in the world during that time.