Will you go on record and state that Tariffs will not have an effect on the Free Market?
THere now that should be easy enough to answer.
Why would I? Show me a period when tariffs haven't had an effect on the market. Calling it the "free" market doesn't change the reality. Tariffs protected this market from being subverted. There now is Nothing protecting the market from subversion - zip. And as a result, you're turning third world nations into trade empires while stripping that status from your own country. How do you suppose that's gonna look in the history books - not good, unless you're aim is to look at it from the point of view of the countries you built up while destroying your own. And the Chinese are more then happy to oblige. Thus the entry of the word treason to the conversation.