Tariffs are effective and all of our founding fathers knew this.
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Some of the founders gave a shit about the industrial/ manufacturing potential of our country, others wanted to import everything from England.
Our current political and business policies are to send every producer to Asia while turning environmental lawyer lunatics loose on domestic producers.
“It is a situation that can’t be maintained.”
Most of our founding fathers made fortunes off of agriculture and still they were to a man on board with import tariffs. Amazing vision these guys had.