Right!
Tell that to 8 nations with 'Mad Cow' notions?
During enactment of The First Federal Revenue Law, James Madison declared that Congress must "remedy the evil" of "the deficiency in our Treasury." He argued that "[a] national revenue must be obtained," but not in a way "oppressive to our constituents." He then proposed that the House adopt legislation, virtually identical to the unimplemented Confederation tariff, imposing a five-percent tariff on all imports...
A single, uniform tariff, he insisted, was consistent with the principles of free trade.
Making protectionism even worse is that its transfer of wealth from American consumers to American producers is a negative- sum game.
This erroneous and irrational statement fully discredits the author of this article.
He schizophrenicly assumes that Americans can be consumers without being producers. And he totally ignores that it is in the value-added, goods-producing sectors of our economy that wealth is created.