Tariffs are not free money but provoke retaliation putting workers who make goods for export without jobs.
If you think we are watching a divisive catfight now just try and get tariff rates through the Congress.
If you look at the size of our exports relative to our imports, you’ll realize that imports dwarf exports and it would be net gain in jobs for us. We’ve already been in a trade war, we just haven’t been fighting. It’s time for us to retaliate.
Our tariffs are already lower than the restrictions many countries apply to our goods.