Tariffs are socialist/communistic as is the minimum the wage and populism outright sucks too hamiltonian/jacksonan/ roosevelt populism has been the death knoll of the Constitutional Republic.
Explain why Marx was a Free Trader? Explain why every country we trade with has high tariffs on our exports of durable goods?
But, in general, the protective system of our day is conservative, while the free trade system is destructive. It breaks up old nationalities and pushes the antagonism of the proletariat and the bourgeoisie to the extreme point. In a word, the free trade system hastens the social revolution. It is in this revolutionary sense alone, gentlemen, that I vote in favor of free trade.
- Karl Marx, On the Question of Free Trade (1848)