I don't understand where you're coming from at all. Are you saying that America's lower class would be better off if we shut out china so they could quit their jobs and get back into the sock-making and phony novelty vomit factories and earn the right to pay more for those products on the consumer end?
Tarriffs, like all consumer taxes are actually a much bigger burden on those who spend a higher percentage of their disposable income.
LOL. Quite so. Tariffs are mainly a way of saying that our standard of living is too high to be able to support low-value work. So our standard of living must be lowered (by raising prices) so we can "compete" with low-value work.
The middle class is basicly saying slow it down. We have NAFTA, CAFTA, China MFN, illegal immigrants, outsourcing of high tech jobs, and importing H-1B workers (now attempts are being made to bring in South American coal miners to replace American miners) have caused enough social and economical dislocation in the middle class (blue collar and white collar), now GWB wants amnesty, free trade with Vietnam, North American Union, expansion of H-1B quota, etc, etc. It doesn't even stop so the US workers can adjust, take a breather and settle in. Otherwise 2006 will be repeated over and over and over and over and ..... can you say Democrat millenium????