IMO, the debate is over.
The Free Traders much of which actually wasn’t, got to reveal the magic of their dreams for us.
IT DIDN’T DELIVER, unless unemploying Americans, screwing the middle class, and increasing poverty was the ultimate goal.
It’s time to go back to sanity, just like many of us explained would have to happen.
We’ll here we are.
China has our technology, is an emerging major headache, and our nation was sapped dry.
NO MAS!
You forgot about the debt we incurred buying all that “cheap” imported stuff that now lays in landfills all of the fruited plain.
People are saying the 20% border tax will result in Americans buying American made goods instead of goods made in Mexico. Maybe, but that only works if the product can be made in America for a 20% higher cost. And I fear the problem is that there will be more than a 20% differential.
In other words, the cost to manufacture and sell the same item in America would be greater than 20% higher, which would mean American business people will still not make the item. OK, let’s say that is what happens. So then what is Trump going to do? Raise it to 30%? 40%? Where this eventually goes is to vastly higher prices for goods.