[1rudeboy]

...just as high tax rates can be cured by killing domestic manufacturing. See the logic there?

There is no protectionist logic there, at all. You appear to be taking it on faith that taxes will fall after our domestic manufacturing is killed. Why should they, when protectionists argue that taxes should rise because domestic manufacturing is dying. Deathbed conversion, but only after death?

[central_va]

Tell the truth and we can go on, otherwise I'm done with you. Question, would it concern you at all if the USA became a nation the manufactured nothing at all? Bought all its goods from foreign countries? No steel, no petroleum products, nothing. That isn't going to happen but if it got close to that, would it"bother" you in any way?

The leftist hate domestic industry as much as you do but for green reasons. Actually they earn more respect for honesty than the free trader in my book.