[NorthMountain]

Are you afraid to answer my questions in #101? Do you actually not know the answers?

This is starting to get amusing!

[central_va]

A tariff causes zero regulatory burden on anyone. Tariffs were an integral part of the history of the nation. The USA became and was an industrial economic power house form 1789 to 1913 when at that point tariffs were killed. So tariffs are not leftist at all As a matter of fact Marxists the world over love "Free Trade"

Karl Marx advocated Free Trade, i.e. Capitalism, because (a) whereas Protection builds up the nation-state, Free Trade breaks it down, as a prelude to the creation of a world-state by the Capitalists (b) Free Trade breaks down traditional culture, as a prelude to the creation of a world culture (c) Free Trade exacerbates class warfare, and through this the Capitalists will lose control of the world-state – they will be defeated by the impoverished classes, with the help of their backers in the higher classes.