If your going to spew nonsense, don’t expect me to waste my time spelling it out for you.
Tariffs were set up by our founders to finance our government.
If we had stayed on that path, we wouldn’t have the government bloat we have today.
I don’t consider the government taking ten thousand dollars or more of my income by outright theft, to be preferable to paing a dollar more for a shirt.
“I don’t consider the government taking ten thousand dollars or more of my income by outright theft, to be preferable to paing a dollar more for a shirt.”
Given the present cost differential between foreign-made and domestic-made shirts, I think a tariff that had any impact would cost you much more than $1.00 per shirt. You would be hard-pressed to find a US-made all-cotton dress or sport shirt for less than $100.
One of my favorite examples of the counter-productive nature of tariffs is our tariff on Chinese-made tires. The tariff cost US consumers about $900,000 per job saved and mainly lined the pockets of tire producers here and abroad.
https://www.piie.com/publications/pb/pb12-9.pdf