[TBP]

Do you think protectionism will make that better?

[tumblindice]

“Protectionism” You can stow that happy crappy.
If your boys are anything like Club For Growth, they’d better update their resumes.
MAGA!

[DoughtyOne]

I expect our nation to engage in agreements where both sides benefit.

If an agreement destroys the jobs market in the United States, we’re going to have to suck it up and accept less trade.

Some folks acting as if what has been going on has no down-side.

We have tens of millions of people out of work. The federal government is having to dig deep to help them out in various ways. At the same time, government revenues lag due to payroll taxes that are not collected. At the same time, all the payroll money that would have been spent in the U.S., that would have served to support still other jobs, and payroll taxes from them and still others, is not taking place.

Is protectionism on some level the worst thing that could happen? Obviously not!

We have allowed the pendulum to swing too far in one direction. We need some equilibrium here.

There seems to be a theory out there in the netherworld that as long as trade is robust, it wouldn’t matter if there were only 10,000 private sector jobs in the nation.

I cannot buy into that nonsense any longer.

[Pelham]

I think that among the first bills passed by the First Congress and signed by President Washington was an expressly protective tariff bill written by Secretary of the Treasury Alexander Hamilton.

And that a system of protective tariffs was the basis of the American School of economics and was in effect for most of our history as we grew into the most powerful economy in the world.