EGGSactly Batman!
It always amazes me that the tariff/protectionist crowd what to the fix the problem that was caused by the government instituting useless regulations and high taxes by having the government create more useless regulations and even higher taxes.
“It always amazes me that the tariff/protectionist crowd what to the fix the problem that was caused by the government instituting useless regulations and high taxes by having the government create more useless regulations and even higher taxes.”
Facts are facts. The standard of living and average household income of the average American in inflation adjusted dollars is below 1990 levels when the “free trade” experiment began under GHW Bush. The consumer products industrial infrastructure is gone. Empty factories do not employ people nor do they buy component parts and raw materials from other producers. Entire supply chains have disappeared and with it our industrial infrastructure to fight another major war on the scale of WWII.
If free trade is so good, who benefited from the last 20 years of free trade and deindustrialization? The Chinese, Wall Street, and the top 1%. Not the average American worker and certainly not the middle class.
For those who blame loss of American competitiveness on unions, spend some time driving around NC, SC, Georgia, and Alabama looking at all of the empty non-union factories in decimated small towns.
I’d rather have the prosperity of the Reagan years when we had higher tariffs and US made products, than the jobless misery of today’s economy and cheap Chinese goods.