Wow.
No problems at all, at least as present. You on the other hand DO seem to have a big problem with our free trade platform and instead of following our party you have chosen to adopt the AFL-CIO driven Democrat position of protectionism.
It's the heritage of the south and the Democratic free traders to believe that a prerequisite for a nation to acquire weatlh to keep the average citizen poor.
Not really. Free trade benefits the poor by giving them cheaper goods to buy and thereby allowing them to retain a greater portion of the consumer surplus. The liberal Democrat platform of protectionism that you espouse, by contrast, is and has always been about redistributing that consumer surplus to a select few politically connected fat cats who cannot make an honest living in the competitive marketplace and therefore demand that big brother government step in to help them out. They were doing it in 1830. They were doing it in 1860. And they are still doing it today.
Funny you should mention steel. Without the 28% percent Morrill Tariff on steel, there would never have been a stell industry in the US
The Morrill tariff was enacted in 1861. The American steel industry predates it to AT LEAST the turn of the 19th century. It is therefore impossible that the Morrill tariff could have created the steel industry or that there never would have been one in its absence. and now you can kindly explain how that would have been so wonderful and peachy keen.
Considering that your timeline on the steel industry is as screwy and flat out wrong as all your other timelines no explanation is necessary. I've informed you of this many times and attempted to educate you on the basic facts of history, but then again you can't teach a dumb AFL-CIO union thug new tricks.