Sorry to interject, but you’re making a false dichotomy logical argument:
“Setting aside the issue of tariffs raising prices in order to “create jobs” (can’t happen unless prices go up, remember), when you artificially raise the price of a product (in this case, imported oil) a domestic producer doesn’t just sit on its hands, it raises prices also to capture the higher margin.”
If it were a free market, there would be competition between the multiple oil producers/refiners. The U.S. Is bigger than many/most economies COMBINED we don’t HAVE to rely on any other countries. The 50 States are supposed to be sovereign (for all intents and purposes) and trade between them is like 50 (relatively) small countries. Acting like a tarriff would eliminate any internal competition is not only misguided, it’s stupid.
“Some folks believe in unicorns, but it doesn’t make them real.”
Some folks believe we were all born yesterday, but it doesn’t make them smarter.
“false dichotomy logical [phallacy in your] argument.”
I thought faster than I typed.
False dichotomy, huh? Demonstrate it.