--As a result of those restrictions, the average household pays $21 more per year for sugar. The total cost, nationally, sums to $826,000 for each job saved. Trade restrictions on luggage saved 226 jobs and cost consumers $1.2 million in higher prices for each job saved. Restrictions on apparel and textiles saved 168,786 jobs at a cost of nearly $200,000 for each job saved.--
The social costs of unemployment/underemployment (welfare, domestic violence, substance abuse) are greater than the costs of "protectionism."
Okay, noob.
As a result of those restrictions, the average household pays $21 more per year for sugar. The total cost, nationally, sums to $826,000 for each job saved.
You think it's more expensive to pay $826,000 for a sugar job or just give the sugar worker a check for $26,000? And why the scare quotes around protectionism? Is it because you don't think it exists or because you don't understand what it means?