[Pox]

Nonsense. Although I have not been the owner of a small company, I have always worked for very small companies that are lean and run on a very tight budget, except for my time in the Army. They have also been small enough to not be beholden to investors, except for one short employment that ended after said investors got cold feet. I am intimately familiar with the mechanics at all levels of a small business, and although they are not directly comparable to a mid to large size business that does depend on such, once you've entered that arena the rules change dramatically.

I'm not necessarily saying those changes are for the worse, but the dynamics change and so do the results. In any case, such issues do not address the topics I'm referring to, so I'll get back on track, which is your disdain for tariffs that you believe are driving Hershey from production in this country, and again, after some more reading of several union and Hershey related articles published over the last 2-3 years, I am more than convinced that my analysis is right on the money.

[Wuli]

Under your whims, in favor of protectist tarriffs (which I can see you wishing were higher and broader than they are), more American companies would leave this country in order to avoid the restrictions our import tarrifs were making on the goods they needed for production than would those companies that simply closed due to foreign competition.