Right. I should always remember that I’m dealing with total economic illiterates like you here.
You said, somewhere in your fog of BS that “Tariffs should be used to protect American industries.”
Yeah, that’s a great idea if you’re a socialist like our friend Bernie. Or a protectionist. Sorry, I repeat myself.
You seem to think a few people should be employed at the expense of everyone else. No matter to you, everyone else only pays a few nickels and dimes here and there to preserve some jobs that shouldn’t exist.
No problem, right? Everyone else will never notice those extra nickels and dimes, right?
Never mind that when you add it all up, we’re all less better off in total.
But, that sounds just great to you, right?
Since you’ll never admit that your proposed tariff policy makes us less well-off as a whole, there’s nothing more to be said.
Other than to suggest that you might want to read some Ricardo on comparative advantage. We do some things better than others. You may not, but the society as a whole does.
I like how you responded to: "The founding fathers instituted tariffs at an average amount of 15 percent" and then keep straight on with the "you're a socialist! You're an illiterate!" crap. I guess you're smarter than the people who founded this country, though I tend to think that what worked from the founding of the nation until the socialistic income tax was working quite fine without your globalist free trade crap that ended the British empire.