[central_va]

This tariff stuff sounds good to the economically illiterate but it's bad.

BS. Were all the founding fathers economically illiterate when the erected massive trade barriers in the 19th century?

while the damage of international trade is concentrated and obvious to the makers of widgets, the effect of cheaper goods coming in means that everybody else has more money left over to spend on other things.

More globalist propaganda. I am waiting for Ford, Carrier and Nabisco to announce price reductions the products they now make in Mexico. /sarc

[Smokey Stover]

Were all the founding fathers economically illiterate when the erected massive trade barriers in the 19th century?

I don't know if it was "economically illiterate" or not, but it sure as heck enriched Massachusetts and Connecticut at the expense of Virginia farmers.