Do you even know anything about the move to tariff softwood lumber?
Canadian producers pay nothing to cut trees other than the price of men and equipment. The trees are free.
American producers must pay for the trees, whether they are in Canada or the US.
These tariffs are right and righteous for all those who can about the NATION, as opposed to those who care only about some quaint notion in a book written by Adam Smith.
Puritanical Free Trade and Open Markets have never been, anywhere, at any time.
Ever.
And they never will be.
There in nothing in the US Constitution guaranteeing free trade between the USA and other countries. Actually the opposite is true.
Adam Smith and John Keynes really f-ed up the world.
You are not to inquire how your trade may be increased, nor how you are to become a great and powerful people, but how your liberties can be secured; for liberty ought to be the direct end of your Government.
Is there a conflict between liberty and someone's job, or someone's business model? Liberty should prevail.
Is there a conflict between liberty and the nation's world prestige or power? Liberty should prevail.
Liberty, liberty, liberty above all.