Good! Excellent!
Between you admitting this - and CNN admitting that tariffs raise costs - I really think this has been a breakout thread.
On the point to do with monopoly producers and domestic competition: the pattern is that if a large-enough business starts to fail then there is a great political temptation to bail out the company.
The big, failing company has the lobbyists and the money to get structural barriers put in the way of would-be competitors.
GM wasn't a monopoly producer (thank God) but you've all seen how Government lavished its union with gifts, and corruptly gave it the company.
Imagine the same situation happening in a parallel universe where GM was three times bigger and Ford (etc) were tiny underdogs. And then imagine that Obama not only kept GM in subsidies but went after Ford like he went after Gibson guitars
That's how a monopoly producer - protected from the rest of the world by tariffs, and from domestic competition by the Government - can ride on the taxpayers in defiance of the law of the market.
Hope this was helpful
Looks like the real world needs me.
Later guys.
I am not going to kill all manufacturing because someday, someone may have some monopoly producing some domestically manufactured item. If that is what Free Traitors use for an excuse and justification, that is just plain retarded.