[central_va]

That’s true, but that reinforces my argument, it doesn’t weaken it. I’m against all such perversions and artificial manipulations, including excessive tariffs.

Unless it is another nation like Japan or China tariffing our stuff which they do heavily, then you are all silent. Greedy hypocrites all.

Well you have your way and 100 years from you and your FREE TRADE ilk will be HATED by the citizens of the once great USA.

[C. Edmund Wright]

I never said I was against all tariffs, and never said I was against EVER using trade as a weapon. It punishes our people to do so, but sometimes it’s necessary. BTW, the life of the average Japanese and certainly of the average person in China is not really a ringing endorsement of what their governments are doing.

That doesnt’ change the fact that you are using vacuums and fantasies about 100% this way or that way to discredit what I was saying, and your argument doing so was specious and backfired. Besides, you look at countries as a single entity, and sorry dude, that’s not how commerce is done.