If the union worker isn't 100 times more productive than some joker making 32 cents an hour in Dumputzistan, he must be working for GM.
George Washington said a tariff should be at least the cost of shipping an item from a foreign country to here, so that like products (foreign and domestic) could compete equally.
He said that? Where?
He wanted the $5 shipping charge to have a $5 tax slapped on as well? Sounds like an extra $10 would not make the like products compete equally.
Sounds like something you pulled out of your ass. I'm sure Washington was much better at math than you. LOL!
“Sounds like something you pulled out of your ass. I’m sure Washington was much better at math than you. LOL!”
I can’t find the quote. I haven’t read this book in years. But the Tariff Act of 1789 was the second bill signed by Washington as president, a protective tariff, to protect and encourage domestic manufacture by making foreign goods of equal price or more expensive.
We did the same in the 18 teens, when Europe tried to flood the American market with goods. Have you read any trade history?