[Jim W N]

Regardless of what other countries are doing, our goal should be voluntary, open, and free supply and demand in marketplace.

Forcing higher prices on incoming goods just penalizes the American consumer and lowers our standard of living and don’t at all attack the core economic issues (the federal government) that hinder our competitiveness in the marketplace.

There’ll always be customers for high quality, low priced goods. We don’t need tariffs to accomplish that.

[Svartalfiar]

Regardless of what other countries are doing, our goal should be voluntary, open, and free supply and demand in marketplace.

In our marketplace, sure. But in the global marketplace, that's just a terrible idea.

Forcing higher prices on incoming goods just penalizes the American consumer and lowers our standard of living and don’t at all attack the core economic issues (the federal government) that hinder our competitiveness in the marketplace.

And forcing higher prices on outgoing goods also penalizes the American consumer (through the American producer), and also lowers our standard of living.

What would you say if a particular country taxed all our stuff at 200%, then just had free reign in our country? Should we just let them sell cheap goods, while our businesses can't compete, and eventually everything produced, every job, everything is over there? How is a 50-10% split different? Or a 25-10% split? The point of tariffs from us is to equalize their tariffs and industry subsidizing./