[hedgetrimmer]

You are not conservative if you call for protectionism mandates

You're not an American if you don't know that the country was founded on the principle of protecting the domestic economy. Tariffs are constitutional. Only an sellout argues that America shouldn't be protected from the global looters.

[investigateworld]

That's why I love to play with the free trade crowd.... play with them long enough and they reveal themselves.

Remember that exchange where I took a shot in the dark that Low Country Joe was a .gov + NGO employee and not in the productive world?

"Twas a fun thread!

[hocndoc]

Tariffs are different from telling two people that they may not contract for employment, favoring one group over another — and adding mandated salary and benefits. The founding fathers and the Constitution have encouraged the land of opportunity, not the land of guaranteed “living” wages, health care, or even food, housing, and clothing.

In addition: Tariffs do not include the power to force companies to hire certain people, forbidding them to hire others. Tariffs most certainly are not defined by Federal Corporate taxes among the highest in the world. http://www.taxfoundation.org/publications/show/22917.html