[1rudeboy]

In any case, my example was to illustrate how a tariff on the "other guy" in Mexico affects someone in the United States.

It's just how government works: it aims at a target, and hits something else. Economists call it "unintended consequences." Protectionists deny it all exists.

[Chainmail]

So your solution is to let our companies fire American workers all they want to and move lock, stock and barrel overseas?

We have a different definition of patriotism.