[khelus]

The US economy was built on the principles of a free markets, private enterprise, and competition. ... Adam Smith ... understood that free trade is beneficial to everyone.

You are busy justifying the misnonered 'Free Trade' as it is practiced today, regulated by unelected bureaucrats in the UN and WTO who enforce hundreds, if not thousands, of pages of regulations.

Reread Adam Smith. He was all for tariffs under several circumstances. In fact Smith was not overly fond of large global corporations who are the beneficiaries of so called 'Free Trade'. Additional beneficiaries are countries that have engaged in economic war on us, prime example being Red China.

[Toddsterpatriot]

He was all for tariffs under several circumstances.

Don't be so vague.