[An.American.Expatriate]

doom and gloom ....

bringing jobs and businesses back to America by imposing tariffs to offset the unfair advantage china, mexico and others enjoy due to very low wages and next to no environmental protections simply evens the playing field.

[Eric Pode of Croydon]

If I were an American business owner, faced with the tax and regulatory horror show that is the United States, I'd move my production line to a country that wanted me there, too, and not bat an eyelash.

[lewislynn]

bringing jobs and businesses back to America by imposing tariffs to offset the unfair advantage china, mexico and others enjoy due to very low wages and next to no environmental protections simply evens the playing field.

What most people don't understand about negotiating these deals is just the threat of tariffs from a country/man they know will do it would be good enough...

And THAT is what scares the $hit out of them about Trump.

[expat_panama]

...jobs and businesses back to America by imposing tariffs...

Increasing my taxes will not make me want to hire more Americans.  What's going to happen is the tax hikes will force me to take money away from payrolls and give it to the government.  Somehow I'd have thought that this really should not be something that needed saying on a conservative forum.

...the unfair advantage china, mexico and others enjoy due to very low wages and next to no environmental protections simply evens the playing field.

For me the market place is for buying and selling and not a feild for playing in, but even if it were we all know that there is never in real life where a playing field is perfectly level.  We deal with it by trading off and deciding whether we want to play or not.   As for business I'm going to choose for myself whether I'm willing to buy or sell stuff and for me it's a lot easier w/o the gov't taking over so certain party faction members can feel more 'protected'.