Our wise and morally superior founders are rolling in their graves watching the world cashing in and practicing unopposed mercantilism against their beloved USA. They fought a war and risked everything to stop that....
It won’t be an answer if its income gets hurled into more rabbit holes of fairy dust schemes. It won’t be. You can count on that just as you can count on history to repeat.
This is NOT an age with a spirit like that of the Founders — not yet. I am a God agitator, trying to get that spirit to be embraced again, but I don’t have any foolproof way of knowing how well that will work. The brick walls are plentiful and their positions unknown.
And I’d sure agree with you that mercantilism, embraced as first principle, is foolish. It forgets that it will be a cancer on patriotism.
But if patriotism is suffering cancer from something else anyhow, then getting rid of one cancer doesn’t do anything about the other cancer.