You can't explain something you can't grasp. So far you can't grasp that tariffs are a valid mechanism to generate revenue. You say it, but then...
You trash anyone who suggests raising tariffs, you trash anyone who doesn't also. You're simply lost in some twilight zone episode where you can't man up to admitting the negative aspects of the trade practices we have utilized with regard to China.
You trash our side for small tariffs, and remain silent as China effectively charges 40% tariffs on our goods.
This episode ends with you just as ignorant now, as the other twenty times you've lost this discussion before.
The United States can use tariffs, tax incentives, and other enticements to move more commerce back to the United States. Trashing one or all of them before anyone has even made a detailed suggestion, show massive ignorance on your part.
If our Founding Fathers saw merit in tariffs, it's not unreasonable for loyal citizen today who respect the nation they handed off to us, to see some merit in them also.
Try being consistent once in a while.
Either you agree with tariffs or you don't.
Either you complain about some, or complain about all, even if China does it.
Either you respect our Founding Fathers, or you loathe them as much as you loathe anyone else who supports some level of reasoned tariffs.
You can't claim every side of this issue and win as if you had actually used logic and a balanced non-flip-flopping approach.
The United States can use tariffs, tax incentives, and other enticements to move more commerce back to the United States. Trashing one or all of them before anyone has even made a detailed suggestion, show massive ignorance on your part.I shouldn't have to remind you that, on a conservative website, raising taxes to "move" commerce anywhere is a dicey proposition. When an economist makes the argument, "trashing" the idea is par for the course.
You, not an economist, hold yourself immune to such criticism because you claim you are being patriotic.
It's funny how, on a website (for the most part) dedicated to rooting-out governmental fraud, abuse, and corruption, one can see people arguing, "the government must raise your taxes for your own good, and I can say so because I'm a patriot." Apart from such arguments, that really don't deserve any time at all, let's get a little more specific. Obama placed higher tariffs on Chinese tires some time ago (I don't know if the higher tariff has been lifted since then, or not). How many jobs did he save? If no jobs were saved, why weren't they (perhaps some other governmental reason)? If a certain number of jobs were saved, at what cost were they saved?
The very last question sends protectionists into fits. But economics usually does.