Seriously though, Al Greene ( the candidate, not the singer ) looks like he’s a Hoover Republican. What he proposes is nothing but a rehash of Smoot-Hawley that got us into the great depression.
He’s the gift that keeps on giving, but I tremble at the thought that a significant number of voters are going to find this message attractive...
I saw in a thread late last week that he was polling around 17%. That’s absurd, but we know the background for such stupidity.
When this nation first started out, tariffs was basically the funding for the Federal Government.
I still think reasonable tariffs, on luxury goods like Scotch, yachts, mink fur, and Parisian perfume is a good idea. Raw materials? No. Most finished merchandise? Hmm, I’d have to think that one through because since we did that jobs have gone overseas.
Smoot-Hawley was about protectionism; I’m thinking government funding.