[central_va]

All those things are good and that would help the service, retail and construction economy. But that wouldn't stop the off shoring of manufacturing. Factories are closing because a US workers cannot compete with peasant wages.

[Jim W N]

When the federal government artificially raises business costs with stupid things like minimum wage, high taxes, regulations, and protected unions, you’ll have that problem. Those things are the CAUSES of the problem and doing away with those things will SOLVE the problem. Tariffs fail to address the causes and they fail to address the solutions. Tariffs are palliative, but do not directly hit the core issues.