Yeah. and we just need to tone down our own march to Socialism a little and increase government control of everything to compensate for the effects of our government control.
The founding fathers put in import tariffs. So you if you want to label that as socialism and government control, then it’s the kind of socialism and government control our founding fathers were comfortable with and I’m okay with it.
They viewed it as promoting freedom. By taxing foreigners wanting to sell into our markets, they avoided taxing American citizens. And by protecting American industries, they strengthened America which has been a force for freedom in the world.