[Nephi]

It is truly amazing that Buchanon rails against anyone who opposes tariffs, but doesn't seem to comprehend that that would only mask a tax system which, at its core and its foundation, confers a tax advantage on foreign producers above and beyond our own.

Free trade dogma.
Buchanan cites facts, phil_will1 falls back on failed intentions and free trade theory.

We should enact the FairTax sooner, rather than later, so that US producers will no longer be handicapped by their own government's tax system.

Free trade subsidizes socialist economies. Tariffs and protectionism leaves them to twist in the wind, or rely on their own struggling economies for sustanance.

The US market is the market to be in for American producers or foreign producers. A NRST taxes American made goods at the same rate as socialist imports. The globalists still get their way.

[hedgetrimmer]

Free trade subsidizes socialist economies. Tariffs and protectionism leaves them to twist in the wind, or rely on their own struggling economies for sustanance

Good point!

[phil_will1]

"The US market is the market to be in for American producers or foreign producers."

That is true today, but China is growing at more than double our rate, has been doing so for more than a decade now and that is expected to continue for the foreseeable future. One of the big carmakers, GM I think, expects the Chinese auto market to be larger than ours by 2020.