In fairness - as you can see, I am making friends on all sides - not EVERYTHING that's made of wood and steel costs more now. Not if they're made in the U.S.A. Imposing some puny/tiny trariffs after noticing that certain nations were practicing dumping is one of the very few decisions W made that I agree with.
But... this topic too deserves its own thread.
So... for the record, I do support W imposing tariffs on foreign steel and wood. I wish he imposed more.
I am not a tax expert, but aren't tariffs taxes on imports? If imported lumber and steel means I have to pay more for them, wouldn't that encourage me to buy more of our own lumber and steel? Wouldn't that boost our own country's lumber and steel companies production, the very companies the greenies have been trying to get shut down for years? Do you suppose greenies buy much lumber and steel?
Please continue, educate me. Unfortunately I do not have time to stay here and finish this with you now, but I will try to return to read more later.
This author would have been better to have included more specifics into his piece instead of just broad brush sweeping generalizations, imo. There is much to be learned from discussion of the specifics. When the author's entire piece is presented as one sweeping generalization about how bad Bush is and how most Bush supporters are blind voters, why would anyone, especially mainstream conservatives, want to bother to respond?