It's obvious that real wealth comes from producing goods,not consuming them.We are transferring billions of dollars of American wealth to China in exchange for worthless trash.To make it even worse we are borrowing money at a record pace to continue sending it to China for those goods.The benefit from free trade goes directly to the corporation who uses it to prop up its bottom line.This nation was built using tariffs and it will be destroyed by removing them and allowing cheap goods to be dumped on our markets.
If that's the case, then Buchanan is only covering part of the problem. In addition to imposing tariffs on imported goods, we must also eliminate all forms of domestic Federal taxation -- including the income tax, payroll taxes, etc.
I've got a deal for anyone who calls themselves a patriotic protectionist . . . we'll impose whatever tariff you'd like on foreign imports, but only if we eliminate all other Federal taxes at the same time.