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Tariffs protect private property, which is the cornerstone of the American Republic. They protect property by allowing the owner to keep its value relative to our nation's economy and not relative to an economic standard set by another nation. The American economic engine has been an entity unto itself and has done very well by the American people and yes, tariffs have assured this.

Through globalist socialist free trade the protective value of the tariff has been lost. You can see that now private property of Americans is now being related to the lowest economic standards in the world, those of low wage or slave labor nations.

It is marxist to promote the idea that Americans should lose all their wealth is it not? Isn't this the loss of private property Marx was so eager to accomplish?

You are destroying the meaning of the word tariff by expanding its meaning to be that it denies individuals the ability to create their own value. The fact that you are trying to do this is classic imposition of Marxist thought on another culture.

Here is what a tariff is:
A list or system of duties imposed by a government on imported or exported goods.

Remember our government was chartered by our founding fathers to _protect_ the individual, and that means protecting the value of his property, his money, his way of life, then so be it.

Our governments job is _not_ to give global corporations and third world countries the right to bankrupt us and throw our economy into chaos, which is clearly what it is doing now.

Tariffs steal private property from some to benefit others, pure and simple. Marx would have no trouble with this, as it brings about an end to pure competition, and, especially, to individual liberty. That was his central goal. In that sense they are marxist.

It is baloney to say that they allow a producer to "keep the value." Value is not determined either by the producer or the GOVERNMENT---except in marxist societies. Value is determined by the MARKET, which is exactly what Marx opposed.