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When you buy a foreign made import you are are actually hiring foreign nationals to build, assemble, ship that product. You are picking foreign workers over Americans. That is the reality of what is happening with trade. Those foreign workers are not paying income taxes to uncle Sam and those imports come in duty free! OTH our workers are burdened with regs and taxes.

Want me to but something American? (and for the record I buy a lot of American products)Ok, then make something cheaper and at least of similar quality. My dollars go for value, not nationality. Most Americans, even Trump voters, agree with me. How do I know, look at their purchases. They have already spoken by buying Toyota over Ford, by buying Samsung over ...who ever, etc, etc.

You cannot place US workers in direct competition with 3rd world peasants without huge social/economic ramifications. That is why we need a tariff.

To balance the difference in labor costs between the USA and the 3rd world would not take much. Frankly, most manufacturing is not labor intensive. That's the point of mass production. Maybe 7% of retail prices goes to labor, and that's for domestic union labor.

Protectionist, (Patriots) understand is that a tariff will increase prices. We get it. WE WANT THAT. It's a one time inflation due to higher labor costs in the USA. We understand economists. We are not stupid. But the payoff comes in lowered social costs and higher quality products. We are willing to pay more for a strong viable industrial base. I WANT TO PAY MORE. I understand the economics involved here.

I am not so greedy as to destroy the USA industrial base, cause social havoc, in order to buy a cheaper poor quality Gook made consumer goods. IT'S NOT WORTH IT AT ANY PRICE.

You Free Traitors™ need to quit acting like you need to educate us Patriots in econmics. We understand economics WAY more than you realize.

Final points: Adam Smith was an Utopian a$$hole.

The motivation of the patriot will always be a mystery to the traitor.